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...Said Ruska, 79, who learned of the honor while at a health spa for treatment of rheumatism: "I am very happy indeed. I believed I was forgotten." He will receive half of the $290,000 physics award. The other half will be shared by two scientists at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory -- Gerd Binnig, 39, a West German, and Heinrich Rohrer, 53, a Swiss -- who between 1979 and 1981 designed a new and entirely different kind of electron microscope...
...program traders," Light said, accounting for quick changes in stock prices at the end of the trading day. "They are the new gnomes of Zurich...
...took hold. Recent years have seen major shows of such expressionist masters as Ludwig Kirchner and Max Beckmann, and now the 100th anniversary of O.K.'s birth is marked by a retrospective at London's Tate Gallery. (The exhibition runs through Aug. 10, and will go to Zurich in the fall and New York City in the winter.) Comprising 241 paintings and drawings, with prints and assorted memorabilia, this will be remembered as the definitive Kokoschka show. The man it reveals, in his waxing and waning powers, his conflicts, insights and gifts of draftsmanship, appears as one of the most...
Whomever it was that Levine traded tips with, he allegedly conducted his deals through Bernhard Meier, 35, an executive for the Bahamas subsidiary of Bank Leu, a Swiss institution with headquarters in Zurich. Meier, who is accused of pocketing $152,000 from Levine's insider trades, was charged last week as an accomplice in the case. Their first transaction took place in May 1980, when Levine was an associate at Smith Barney. He bought 1,500 shares of Dart Industries and sold them less than two weeks later for a modest profit of $4,000, when Dart announced that...
...making travel plans as soon as news of the U.S.-Libya clash reached Egypt. Since it was already past midnight in Cairo and direct air travel from Egypt to Libya is nonexistent, Borrell phoned a travel agent in Seattle (where it was still midafternoon) to book air passage through Zurich. Eight hours later he was in Tripoli, trying to pry a few nuggets of information from the Libyan government. "The biggest frustration," says Borrell, "was that the action was hundreds of miles away, out in the gulf...