Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vaslav Nijinsky, lithe, high-leaping ballet great of 30 years ago, reported slain as a madman by the Nazis last May, turned out to be living in a bomb-blasted Vienna hotel. His wife Romola told reporters that he had almost regained his reason when he left a Swiss asylum in 1940, but life in air-raided Europe had set him back again. At 55 he looked 70: his cheeks were sunken from a near-starvation diet (he lost 40 pounds in the past four months). A reporter could hold his attention only by drawing him doodles. Yet, though...
Last week UNRRA was busy fulfilling its half of the bargain. As 100 more Dunker volunteers set sail for Europe, six fat Dunker Brown Swiss bulls were safe in Greece, 150 Dunker heifers awaited passage to Poland. Said pleased Pacifist Bushong: "Perhaps shootin' isn't the only way out of this world mess...
...Rather Bizarre." How the diary got out is a better story than any Ciano tells. His wife, Edda Mussolini Ciano, smuggled it across the Swiss border in five thick notebooks strapped to her body beneath her skirts. Swiss guards mistakenly thought she was pregnant. According to her story, the Nazis offered her 100,000,000 gold lire ($5,000,000) for the diary. She said no. Later she offered it to Hitler and Mussolini in return for Ciano's life-and was refused. By the time the Chicago News and three competitors put in their bids, Ciano was dead...
What had happened to Edda meanwhile was told last week by the psychiatrist of the Swiss mountain sanitarium where she is confined...
After the meeting with himself, Chairman Weber issued a 14-line statement. A "majority" of the central banks of member nations had been represented at the meeting. No dividend had been declared (although the bank had made a handsome profit of 4,429,562 Swiss gold francs). All profits had been transferred to a "special suspense account...