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...whose method in science was often to find enlightenment in a dream, pronounce the dream a hypothesis, then dream it ten times over again, and announce the establishment of a theory? Delving into his own unconscious (he once took years off from his lecturing at the University of Zurich in order to devote himself to replaying the games of his childhood in the hope of finding clues to the riddle of his psyche), Jung often seemed in flight from his times, in flight from science, in flight from Freud...
...life he felt most at home in the 16th century, and to recapture a time unscarred by "the deceptive sweetenings of existence," he built a round stone tower at Bollingen on Lake Zurich, where he comforted himself in total anachronism. Eager in his old age to chip into stone the thoughts that had escaped him on paper, he surrounded his tower with totems and painstakingly carved stone tablets, and over his door he carved his final confession of faith: "Called or Not Called, God Is Present." Tourists taking their holiday on the lake often saw him, as their boats passed...
...deposits climbed to $220 million; and total assets jumped to $313 million. Shoman's bank has 2,000 employees and 43 branches that cover the Arab world, but Shoman is not content with being merely a banker to the Arabs; he recently opened branches in Zurich...
...Swissair Flight 227 to Zurich taxied onto the runway at Munich last week, it was followed closely by a black police limousine. Not until the Convair disappeared into the night did the plainclothesman inside the car return to headquarters to report that Georges Bidault, 63, former Premier of France and now self-styled operational chief of the terrorist Secret Army Organization, had left West Germany. For the first time since Bidault was traced to his hideaway in a rural villa last month, Bavaria's Minister of Interior Heinrich Junker breathed easily. Sighed he: "A heavy cross...
...hotels or an ugly scandal can send hundreds of tourists off in a huff to St. Moritz or Davos. Hence the reluctance of Zermatt's townsmen to talk about the curious wave of illness that began popping up three months ago. They stolidly ignored word from a Zurich physician that a patient just back from skiing in Zermatt was down with typhoid fever. They also shrugged off a report that an Italian immigrant working near Zermatt had fallen ill with the same disease...