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...tailoring firm of Atkinson Rhodes expanded its exports to half of its total volume. Senior executives are increasingly attending language schools, and their proficiency will be rated, from "elementary" to "advanced," in exams set up by the London and Birmingham chambers of commerce. For the recent "British Week" in Zurich, promotional pamphlets were printed not just in German but in Schwyzerdiitsch, the Swiss dialect...
...cautious standards of Swiss journalism, Blick, a brash tabloid published in Zurich, does everything wrong. It is tasteless, sensational and sometimes inaccurate. Its headlines scream. It runs prize contests but no editorial page. Its very existence offends the police and the government; some of its readers wrap its gaudy pages in a more august paper to hide their shameful habit from disapproving eyes. But almost every day more and more Swiss resort to this sub- terfuge. After four years of life, Blick proudly claims to have become Switzerland's second largest daily...
Other AIESEC jobs provide practical experience in a student's specialty. One junior worked for the Swiss Bank Corporation in Zurich, where he spent the entire summer in the office of financial advice, counselling clients on the desirability of specific stock purchases. Similarly, an economics major did financial research for a small mutual funds firm in Lille, France. At the end of his traineeship he prepared a 40-page report on the prospects for investment in one of France's major steel companies...
...particularly surprised-except that it had lasted this long. After three years of marriage and two sons, Remington Typewriter Heiress Gamble Benedict, 22, filed for divorce in Zurich from the man she had insisted on eloping with: fortune-hunting onetime chauffeur and self-styled economist Andrei Porumbeanu, 38. Grounds: misconduct, as yet unexplained...
Along with 18 other Guest Editors, the 'Cliffies were entertained at a College Fashion Show, a dinner-dance in their honor, and at several Broadway plays. The group also spent a week in Switzerland, where they toured Zurich, Geneva, and several ski-resort areas...