Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Swedish newspapers complain of government bureaucracy or badly muddled industry, they often wind up saying: "What's needed is a Nicolin." The man who has entered the Swedish language as a symbol of the shake-up and the clean sweep is tall, squarejawed Curt René Nicolin, 42, one of Sweden's brightest young businessmen and the chief troubleshooter for the family that controls or persuasively advises more than half of all Swedish industry, the Wallenbergs. Says Banker Marcus Wallenberg: "Nicolin has a sense and a feel for management...
...wonders could pass for young American jazzniks-especially Bassist Feodor Plyat, 26, who wears horn-rims, and Oboist Evgeny Nepalo, 27, whose lank 6 ft. 4 in. is topped by a brown crewcut. Though it prefers Bach, the group does, in fact, dig jazz. Its preference: the clean-lined cool of Erroll Garner and Dave Brubeck...
...last some modern contractors are going to clean up after Lawrence & Co. In Riyadh next week, government representatives from Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia will sign a $28 million contract with a British consortium-Alderton Construction Co., Ltd. and Martin Cowley, Ltd.-to renovate the German-designed railroad. A team of 200 engineers, working from air-conditioned railway cars, will direct an army of Arab laborers as they rebuild 55 stations and 1,900 bridges and culverts, lay 750,000 ties and 23,000 tons of rails at a planned rate of one mile...
Maniac is good clean sadism that seldom falters until the final frames, when the fun is diluted in a 3.2 Hitchcock solution. A chase through an underground quarry might have worked out fine for Alfred, but this shock show scores highest when it is being its unpredictable self...
...birds). Schwartz settles down, helps Cohen's small son with his lessons, and reads him comics when the boy is sick. But Cohen cannot stand the bird, finally drives him out into the winter snow. In the spring the boy finds him in a lot, both eyes plucked clean, presumably by "anti-Semeets...