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This breakthrough in organic chemistry is the result of an 11-year research program jointly undertaken by Harvard and Switzerland's Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Ninety-nine scientists from 19 countries have participated in the program...
...These costs may drop drastically next year if the Federal Aviation Administration approves United Air Lines' plan to halve the price of tickets bought 90 days in advance. Air fare forms a major part of the cost of any European trip. A wintertime flight from New York to Zurich or Geneva is $238 round trip; charter flights can be considerably less...
...whose advance he slows by drinking a bottle of whisky a day. One of the beasts lurking here is his beloathed father, a rich bully whose obnoxious character was seen in Fifth Business, and when Father dies mysteriously, Staunton flees from Toronto to the office of a psychiatrist in Zurich...
...there were few jobs to be had in Depression-worn Berlin, so Breuer moved on to Zurich and then to England. There, he joined a pioneer modernist, London Architect F.R.S. Yorke, and designed in 1936 a small completely innovative pavilion at an exhibition in Bristol. Its taut glass juxtaposed with romantically rough walls of stone, it enclosed a beautifully proportioned space, and architects everywhere began to talk about Breuer. Even more striking was a project for the "Civic Center of the Future" that contained a lively assortment of innovative building shapes-Y-shaped, stepped-back and cantilevered structures, slabs, buildings...
...chief foreign customers for the art works are diplomats. It is an open secret in Moscow that some use their immunity from search to carry icons illegally out of the country. Representatives from the Third World countries of Africa and Asia often buy rubles in Zurich at 20% of the official exchange rate, and smuggle the money back to Moscow to buy icons at bargain prices. They then sell the images for hard currency in Western Europe, and go back to Zurich to buy more rubles...