Word: bertil
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...DIED. Bertil Ohlin, 80, Swedish politician and economist who shared, with England's James E. Meade, the 1977 Nobel Prize in Economics; in northern Sweden. At 25, the handsome, precocious Ohlin was a full professor at the University of Copenhagen and an expert in international trade. A practitioner as well as a theorist, Ohlin was Sweden's Trade Minister in a wartime coalition government (1944-45). Chief of the Liberal Party from 1944 to 1967, he waged a lifelong battle to check the growth of socialization in Sweden...
BORN. To Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf, 33, and his German-born wife Queen Silvia, 35; their first son, second child; in Stockholm. Name: Carl Philip Edmund Bertil, Duke of Värmland...
Milton Friedman, an American economist at the University of Chicago, won the economics prize in 1976, and last year's award went to Bertil Ohlin of Sweden and Englishman James Meade...
Married. Prince Bertil of Sweden. 64; and his close friend of 33 years. Lilian Craig, 61, a British commoner; he for the first time, she for the second; in Drottningholm Palace, just outside Stockholm...
Once there was a Swedish prince named Bertil, who fell in love with a volunteer nurse named Lilian. The two wanted to wed, but alas, the King disapproved of his son's marriage to a commoner. Faced with losing his place in line for the throne, Prince Bertil decided not to marry Lilian. But that was not the end of the affair-the couple set up housekeeping on the French Riviera and later at more palatial quarters in Sweden. Eventually, the old King died, and his grandson, Carl Gustaf, and not Prince Bertil, assumed the throne. The new King...