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...first plebiscites on the nuclear issue, the Swedish vote was watched closely in Western Europe. In Denmark, it was believed to have reinforced public sentiment in favor of starting a nuclear program to reduce the country's 95% dependence on imported energy. In Zurich, where a referendum will be held on April 27 concerning a sixth reactor, proponents of the project were encouraged...
...actions prove to be so heavyhanded as to cause a far steeper slide than anyone expected? If so, many economists were fearful that Washington might react in a panicky rush to begin spending all over again, sending inflation surging to new and even more frightening heights. Observed one Zurich banker last week in a rueful sentiment that was almost universally shared among business leaders and economists everywhere: "I am afraid that at the first sign of a sharp recession, there will be a change in course...
...Jean Lindenmann. Isaacs, who died of a nonmalignant brain tumor at age 45 in 1967, was investigating influenza viruses at London's National Institute for Medical Research. There he met Lindenmann, who had arrived from Switzerland in July 1956. Lindenmann, now head of experimental microbiology at the University of Zurich, stayed in London only a year. But it was time well spent. Over a cup of tea that August, the two scientists discovered a mutual fascination with a biological phenomenon known as viral interference. It was so called because doctors had observed that a victim of one kind of virus...
...example, averages $20,800 a year, almost twice as much as he would get in London and three times what he would earn in Paris. A teacher in Chicago with ten years of experience receives about $20,100 a year; this is below the $31,400 his counterpart in Zurich makes, but well above the $12,200 a London schoolmarm or master gets. A chef at a good restaurant in San Francisco makes more than three times the $8,700 that a cook in a similar place in London would earn...
...Bogotá boast the cheapest prices, while Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), Abu Dhabi and Manama (Bahrain) are the most expensive. Incomes are also swept away rapidly in Tokyo, Oslo, Geneva and Copenhagen. The 2.2 lbs. of medium-quality rump steak that would cost $7 in the U.S. fetches $24 in Zurich and $41 in Tokyo. In Jeddah a smoker must pay $4.99 for a pack of Marlboro cigarettes...