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...Nile. Asked by the U.S. embassy, in 1954, to look for a traveling Vassar girl whose father had died at home, the Paris office found that it had booked the girl on a train trip to Nice, followed the trail through five countries before catching up with her in Zurich. After a New York matron complained that her daughter had disappeared in Europe, the company finally tracked the girl down in Paris, where she had set up light housekeeping with a Frenchman. One Christmas in London, a middle-aged American visitor hinted that she was lonely and a company representative...
...identified The Organization as a small group of purchasing agents for the U.S. armed forces who handed out fat Government contracts in return for personal kickbacks of 1% to 5%. All told, McLane said, he paid The Organization some $235,000 by depositing money to an account in Zurich's Credit Suisse. Out of twelve PX officials McLane named, only one, Charles E. Wilson, was tried. He was convicted, fined $5,000 and sentenced to six months in jail...
...sugar and salt solutions) into veins. And he invented a daring operation to open and then stitch together an artery which had developed an aneurysm (like a blister on an inner tube). When Matas retired at 67, the trustees imported Ochsner from South Dakota (by way of St. Louis, Zurich, Chicago and Milwaukee); this time there was no home-grown crown prince...
Died. Herman Weyl, 70, famed German-born mathematician, professor emeritus at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study, author (The Open World, Mind and Nature); of a heart attack; in Zurich. One of the original faculty members, Dr. Weyl joined the institute in 1933 after repeated invitations from the late Dr. Albert Einstein...
Died. Emma Jung, 73, wife of pioneer Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (TIME, Feb. 14), and onetime vice president of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich; of a heart attack; in Kiisnacht, Switzerland...