Word: zuricher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Switzerland. The Zurich Bourse, leading stock market of Switzerland, had its most active year since World War II's end, with average prices up 24% in 1954 and almost every Swiss stock climbing to new alltime highs. Nestlé Alimentana Co. (food and chocolate) was up 20% from 1953; Sulzer Machine Works up 35%; Switzerland's Ciba chemical company, helped by the new drug "Serpasil," used to combat nervous disorders and high blood pressure, jumped from $650 a share...
...links him to that tight little European democracy. He is of Swiss descent on his father's side and still has relatives there. He chose Swiss banks to hold the plunder, reportedly $6,000,000, that came into his hands while he was President. And it was in Zurich that an Arbenz henchman last year negotiated the purchase of $10 million worth of Communist arms. If the President who almost delivered Guatemala to the Reds now wanted to visit Moscow headquarters to talk over the past and future, he could hardly find a more discreet door through the Iron...
...Bahadur, 48, who with a name like that deserves to have (and has) two Queens, got official word that he will be welcome in the U.S. Polygamist Tribhubana, in Switzerland for repairs on his heart, had earlier mentioned that he might go to the U.S. for further treatment. A Zurich busybody started an international ruckus by warning a royal aide that U.S. immigration laws would prevent the King and his wives from so much as getting off the boat. After a chorus of hospitable noises arose from the U.S. State Department, the U.S. consul general in Zurich last week proclaimed...
...political prison. The Fields' reaction was typically "arch-individualistic"-instead of dashing for freedom, they elected to repair to a Hungarian hospital and hole up, incommunicado. Hermann, released with apologies three weeks earlier by Poland with the admission that it had all been a terrible mistake, flew to Zurich, where CIA agents slapped a cloak of security around him and hustled him off to a secret reunion with his wife. No one could yet be sure whether the Fields, individually or collectively, were innocents, double agents or Communists...
...bringing Europe together again by his diplomatic skill, let me please nominate Sir Anthony Eden as Man of the Year. LUBIN J. VALIS Zurich, Switzerland...