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...belong to somebody?" asks the shy Dutch student on a sudden impulse. The girl in the bright yellow dress smilingly answers no. It is Zurich in the invasion spring of 1944. but any day is D-day to Cupid. The arrow of love pins Anthoni and Catherine together in a brief, bittersweet affair. Only when they try to pull apart do the lovers discover that the arrow is poisoned...
...clergyman and grandson of a well-known Swiss satiric poet, Düurrenmatt turned to drama after studying philosophy at the universities of Bern and Zurich. He settled in Neuchatel "because I wanted to be alone, far away from friends who would constantly call on me, hampering my work...
...only afford to lease three Super Constellations (and crews) from Seaboard & Western. Austria recently flew into the big time with a line prepared to go anywhere except where it is needed. Using four chartered Viscounts, Austrian Airlines will soon be serving such major-and well-served-cities as London, Zurich, Paris, Frankfurt, Rome and Warsaw. Yet the line has no service in Austria itself, which lacks an internal airline and badly needs...
Mezzo-Soprano Hoffman held on to her Manhattan bar job while she took singing lessons. In 1951 she won a Fulbright scholarship to study opera in Italy, became a member first of the Zurich Stadt-theater, later of the Stuttgart Staatsoper. In her seven years in Europe. Grace has appeared at La Scala, Covent Garden. Florence. Bayreuth. With her 2½-octave range she has sung 20-odd roles, including Carmen. Gluck's Orpheus, Dora-bella in Mozart's Cosí fan Tutte, Ulrica in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, plus mezzo and contralto parts...
Slim, Westernized Soraya rushed to Switzerland, probably for a new series of "medical checkups." In Zurich, to conceal her purpose from the press, the green-eyed Queen bought 17 ski costumes, new skis, mufflers, mittens, jaunty knitted caps. But she went skiing only twice, to the dismay of the instructor placed wholly at her disposal. The Queen's German mother played solitaire all day, brooded and developed a facial tic. The Queen ate little, leaving her untouched trays out on the terrace to feed the birds. There were no 7 p.m. phone calls from the Shah, routine on previous...