Word: zuricher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editor of Zurich's solemn Swiss Review of World Affairs, returning from a trip to the U.S., assured his readers last week that the U.S. has just enjoyed "the happiest summer since 1928." Britain alone in Western Europe has a two-year draft; the rest have anywhere from twelve to 21 months...
Mixed Grill. Scorning the committee approach, Steiger designed everything down to the laundry truck for a recently completed, $20 million Zurich hospital. Every purchase order for the hospital, no matter how small, passed across his desk. When a surgeon objected to his unorthodox arrangement of the operating rooms, he said perhaps the doctor would be happier elsewhere. The doctor stayed, and eventually approved...
When he completes his present job, Steiger will plunge into an even more challenging assignment: building Switzerland's first "atomic city" in Zurich Canton. The project calls for a power-reactor plant surrounded by factories, and a complete town for the personnel. "If it works," Steiger says briskly, "I hope it will show that the architect can have a big, responsible position in the atomic...
...visited the Soviet zone of Germany and was lionized there, wrote a letter of praise for an old friend, now a Soviet literary commissar, and finally settled near Zurich, Switzerland...
...Poet-Dramatist Friedrich von Schiller. Almost in spite of himself, Mann had become a symbol of German unity. His 80th birthday in June was the occasion for celebrations in the Western world, but none so satisfactory to Mann as those in Germany. A month ago Mann was hospitalized in Zurich with phlebitis. Last week, at the age of 80, he died...