Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Japanese tourist persuaded his Intourist guide to allow him a day close to the Soviet side of the border. He saw no troops, nor indeed any sign of unusual military activity, but he returned dazzled by the natural beauty of the area. "The Soviets called it a second Switzerland," he said later, "and it was-so lovely, peaceful and sparsely populated...
Niarchos responded from Switzerland. He accused Onassis of trying to overcharge the Greek government by as much as $190 million over the next ten years for transporting oil in his tankers. "We are wondering why such a huge gift is made to our competitors," said Niarchos. Later, when Onassis was asked if he would ever join with Niarchos in a Greek project, he replied: "Don't you think that that is a bad-taste joke...
Wolfe's hints about his origin place his birth in the early 1890s, and allude obscurely to the old Balkan kingdom of Montenegro. Holmes, after his final encounter with Professor Moriarty in Switzerland in 1891, is believed to have traveled through Italy. Is it possible that he ended up in Montenegro and solaced himself by having an affair-perhaps with his old flame, Opera Singer Irene Adler, who happened to be touring the Balkans? Egad! Do you suppose...
...gossips in Vienna. Kokoschka decorated the wall over the fireplace of Alma's country house in the Austrian Alps with a mural showing Alma rising from the flames. "I consider I worked very well during that time," the artist recalled last week at Ville neuve in Switzerland, where at 83 he now lives and paints...
...time highs. It soared to $48.41 per oz. in Paris, compared with the official price of $35. Many people were lusting to buy gold, and practically no one was willing to sell. Frenchmen, historically distrustful of their own currency, defied monetary controls and smuggled suitcases full of francs into Switzerland and Belgium. There, they rushed to put their money into gold, Eurodollars and strong currencies-notably Swiss francs, Belgian francs and West German marks. Speculators and traders outside France were betting, in effect, on devaluation; they were agreeing to buy francs for future delivery only at discounts...