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...story clearly has been repeated and embellished. Raiffa last week received a telegram from Zurich reading, in part: "Last week, a well known columnist [Mseva Maria Borer] in a mass-circulation newspaper in Zurich wrote an article with the title "Lying Can Be Taught..."In the article she referred to your course on competitive decision making. The course section dealing with the strategy of deception was quoted as an example of the decadence of American society in general and the business world in particular. Teaching the youth and the future manager how to lie most effectively seemed...
...largest bazaars for the purchase and sale of the metal remain in London and Zurich. As it has been since 1919, the worldwide price has been set twice a day on the London gold market by five of Britain's leading dealers in bullion. They meet in the offices of N.M. Rothschild & Sons, the City bank, and agree upon a price at which all are prepared to trade in the metal that day. Meanwhile in the U.S. an enormous and highly speculative market in the trading of gold "futures" contracts has developed on the New York Commodity Exchange...
...start anew, Einstein dropped out of school and renounced his German citizenship. To shake off the bitter memories of the Munich school, he spent a year hiking in the Apennines, visiting relatives and touring museums. He then decided to enroll in the famed Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Though he failed the entrance exam?because of deficiencies in botany and zoology, as well as in languages
After seven years Einstein at last merged from the patent office and won a succession of academic posts in Prague and Zurich. Finally, on the ve of World War I, in spite of his distaste for Germany's pervasive militarism, he accepted a professorship at the University of Berlin and an appointment to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute as head of a newly created center for theoretical physics...
Europeans were quick to point out, though, that last week's rebound of the dollar did no more than restore it to its extremely low levels of three weeks ago; it still takes an even dollar, converted into Swiss francs, to buy a cup of coffee in Zurich. Washington has intervened in the exchange markets before and set off momentary dollar rallies, but it has never bought enough bucks for a long enough time to have any lasting effect. And even $30 billion is not much when measured against the $600 billion or more in greenbacks that are floating around...