Word: zurich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...houses are rapidly expanding their networks on the Continent and providing new and faster quotation services. More and more American companies are seeking listings on foreign exchanges as a way of attracting European investors. Last week Litton Industries, California's fast-growing electronics complex, began trading on the Zurich Exchange, bringing to more than 250 the number of New York Stock Exchange securities now officially quoted on Europe's bourses...
...time he was 13. When his compositions were banned in Germany in 1934, Hindemith turned to reorganizing the music education program of Turkey, then came to the U.S. in 1940. He was a professor of music at Yale until 1953, when he returned to Europe and settled down in Zurich. He was a short, round little man of robust health until circulatory ailments began to plague him in his declining years. Hindemith died at 68, following four swift strokes, and was buried near Vevey on Lake Geneva. Only a few close friends were at his graveside...
...tailoring firm of Atkinson Rhodes expanded its exports to half of its total volume. Senior executives are increasingly attending language schools, and their proficiency will be rated, from "elementary" to "advanced," in exams set up by the London and Birmingham chambers of commerce. For the recent "British Week" in Zurich, promotional pamphlets were printed not just in German but in Schwyzerdiitsch, the Swiss dialect...
...cautious standards of Swiss journalism, Blick, a brash tabloid published in Zurich, does everything wrong. It is tasteless, sensational and sometimes inaccurate. Its headlines scream. It runs prize contests but no editorial page. Its very existence offends the police and the government; some of its readers wrap its gaudy pages in a more august paper to hide their shameful habit from disapproving eyes. But almost every day more and more Swiss resort to this sub- terfuge. After four years of life, Blick proudly claims to have become Switzerland's second largest daily...
Other AIESEC jobs provide practical experience in a student's specialty. One junior worked for the Swiss Bank Corporation in Zurich, where he spent the entire summer in the office of financial advice, counselling clients on the desirability of specific stock purchases. Similarly, an economics major did financial research for a small mutual funds firm in Lille, France. At the end of his traineeship he prepared a 40-page report on the prospects for investment in one of France's major steel companies...