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...hotel-reservation service, has lost money consistently since it was started in 1969. But these problems are minor annoyances to the executives who have made the American Express name synonymous with the U.S. presence abroad. One perverse sign of the company's world prestige: when students surged through Zurich streets to protest the Viet Nam settlement last winter they ignored the U.S. consulate and all other American establishments in the city -but smashed windows at the American Express office...
...Russian origins, Salome was educated at home in Saint Petersburg and at the University of Zurich. In the course of her many travels she became a friend of Nietzsche, a companion, guide and confessor to Rilke (it was she who first introduced him to Russia), and a favorite pupil of Freud. She knew Wedekind, Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler, and Hauptman. She met Stringberg and the great stage director Max Reinhardt, and Martin Buber encouraged her writing...
Meat may soon be rivaling sex as a source of jokes. Samples: "Where can I rent a steak?" Or: "I would like to invest in a piece of meat." Vice President Agnew offered his contribution last week: "Two Swiss steaks opened a bank account in Zurich." Housewives have taken to following meatless recipes. If their husbands remain meat chauvinists and insist on steak, they are served smaller portions-and sometimes they get something else when they think that they are eating beef. A housewife in Portland, Ore., revealed in a newspaper interview that she had been feeding her husband horsemeat...
...both were behind bars, albeit separated by 4,000 miles and stone walls. Clifford was sentenced to 2½ years in the Lewisburg, Pa., federal prison last August; he has since been transferred to the Danbury (Conn.) prison, after alcohol was found in his possession. Last week in Zurich, a three-judge Swiss court sentenced Edith to two years for fraud and forgery, including signing "H.R. Hughes" to three checks totaling $650,000. She complained that "this joke of the century destroyed Cliff's and my career." They, Edith claimed, face debts and legal claims of $750,000, with...
...collection of Greek and Roman coins in 1920 in London." Offered earlier and more willingly, that evidence might have settled things. But by now charges and countercharges were shooting back and forth across the Atlantic. Reporters were pursuing Hecht, Sarrafian, Met Director Thomas Moving and a restorer in Zurich named Fritz Buerki, who had expertly repaired the calyx krater for Hecht...