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...villa is also the home of the or ganization's leader, a hefty adventurer whose Swiss passport bears the name of Hans Lenzlinger, but who is more widely known as "the People-Smuggler of Zurich." Now 44, Lenzlinger used to be a big-game hunter in Africa and a trader in animal skins. Then he opened a massage parlor in Zurich in the late '60s. After the parlor ran afoul of the vice squad, he switched to the business of selling freedom. In two years, he claims, he has helped 152 East Germans, Hungarians, Czechs and Bulgarians flee...
...sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid," he once said. "It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live." His will endured, but his strength finally faltered. Last week Eddie Rickenbacker died in Zurich, of a heart ailment, at the age of 82. In his final years he had remained spry, cantankerous and active, devoting much of his time to right-wing political causes. TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin recalls seeing him disembark from a jetliner at Washington's Dulles Airport only a year ago, gruffly rejecting someone's offer to help...
...Tokyo art market once and for all." This will not make the intruder popular. But then, Marlborough has never made a virtue of popularity. It is -as exasperated rival dealers are wont to point out-the General Motors of the art world, with branches in London, New York, Rome, Zurich, Montreal, Toronto...
...government. Last week in a national referendum the two articles were finally repealed-and only by a slim majority of voters, most of them Catholics, who only recently have edged out Protestants as the country's largest religious group. Before the referendum, anti-Jesuit campaigners marched through Zurich streets calling Jesuits "lackeys of fascism." Others voiced an outdated fear that Jesuits would seek to make Switzerland a Catholic state. Actually, the Jesuits have been working quietly in Switzerland for years with tacit government approval. The repeal of the old laws will mainly mean an opportunity to operate their...
...West German mark revaluation and fears that the Watergate uproar had left the U.S. with a paralyzed Government unable to stabilize the inflation-weakened value of the dollar. Within two days after bullion markets opened, the price of gold shot from about $96 per oz. to about $109 in Zurich, $110 in London and an astonishing $124 in Paris. The rise was accompanied by a decline in the price of the dollar. For example, the greenback dropped about 2? against the British pound, which rose...