Word: zuricher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three months after Billy Graham packed Madison Square Garden in a one-night stand, the board of directors of Manhattan's Protestant Council voted to invite Billy to hold a first full-scale "crusade" in New York City in September 1956. Graham, in Switzerland to conduct crusades in Zurich and Geneva last week, told newsmen that he would wait until the invitation arrived before accepting or rejecting...
...said Billy without batting an eye. "I am happy it is raining."_Billy remained happy throughout his stay in Paris. Although he did not draw a single capacity audience, the turnout was greater than he had expected. On his last night (he later left for a brief rest in Zurich before starting a tour of other European countries), he drew a crowd of 11,000. "We have fallen in love with the French people," he told them. "We like everything about you, even your coffee." After the service, a Russian princess came backstage, knelt on the floor and begged Billy...
...Geometry, Thirty years later, Einstein recalled: "It made me realize that man is capable, through the force of thought alone, of achieving . . . stability and purity." At 13 he read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Still, it took him two attempts to pass the entrance exams to Zurich Polytechnicum...
Artist Fischer, 46, is a little man with rosy cheeks, a ready laugh and a happy family (two girls and a boy). He lives in a farming village overlooking Lake Zurich, spends his free days sketching in the woods and fields, fishing, and tootling a clarinet when evening falls. He has painted 14 school murals in the past few years, finds the work a welcome antidote to "the eternity complex which may befall an artist and cramp his style...
...shall probably never return," said Nepal's ailing, 48-year-old King Tribhubana when he left his 8,500,000 Nepalese subjects last October to seek medical treatment in Europe. Last week, when Tribhubana died of a coronary occlusion in Zurich, the gloomy prophecy was fulfilled. Accompanied by his youngest son and the two Queens he had married when he was only 13, the King's body was brought home to Katmandu, the capital high in the Himalayas where he was crowned at the age of five...