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...tribute, the Tower, refurbished with the help of funds from Film Director John Huston, Playwright Sean O'Casey and Poet T. S. Eliot, was dedicated as a James Joyce museum, housing first editions of his books, recordings of his readings, and a death mask made in 1941 in Zurich, where he died after more than 30 years of self-exile. The site was carefully chosen, for the opening scene of Ulysses is set there. So was the date, for June 16 was the 58th anniversary of "Bloomsday," the day of Leopold Bloom's 24-hour odyssey through "dear...
...banned, their bodies burned at the stake and their souls consigned to the justice of God, the rebels of Christianity have usually been reported to history through the prejudiced accounts of their vigilant, orthodox suppressors. Historian Walter Nigg, a Swiss Reformed pastor and former professor at the University of Zurich, believes that heretics were not necessarily bad men, and their doctrines not necessarily perversions of God's truth. In The Heretics (Knopf; $6.95). a vivid survey of the church's theological underground, he argues that Christianity owes much to its rebel sons, and has freely adapted ideas that...
...merchant titan who built the $250 million-a-year Migros cooperative food chain (also taxi fleets, sewing machines, Mi-grol gas and oil) by showing the Swiss how to fight price wars, then gave his super-marketing venture to his customers as their gain; of a heart attack; in Zurich...
...Geneva Exchange-which does not restrict floor trading to member brokers-was a churning mob scene as panicky investors rushed onto the floor to sell their stocks in person. On the Zurich Exchange, shares in the blue-chip Crédit Suisse slid from...
...result of the week's unnerving slide was an outburst of resentful complaints at Wall Street's ability to panic stockholders everywhere. Protested Belgium's leading financial paper, L'Echo de la Bourse: "Nothing in our industrial situation justified an adjustment of such importance." Zurich's Neue Zürcher Zeitung wished that Swiss stock markets "would show some sense of emancipation" from Wall Street. But with the international financial community becoming ever more intertwined, one man's aches are surely going to continue to be another's pains...