Word: eriksson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quietly into the neighborhood; another couple is due before Christmas. Unlike parolees, the live-out prisoners have their rent subsidized by the state, the goal being to ease the transition to civilian life for cons with good records. It is the pet project of Swedish Prisons General Director Torsten Eriksson, who so far has every reason to expect success. This summer he sent ten prisoners off for three weeks of fishing, swimming and hiking in a small mountain resort. Everyone liked that so much that there was not one attempt to escape...
...growing armies, hundreds of men migrated to the copper mountain. At the pithead sprang up the village of Falun, Sweden's first industrial center, where the company still has its headquarters. At first each miner dug and smelted the ore himself, but by 1347 King Magnus Eriksson had granted a charter setting up a corporation of master miners. The largest copper supplier in medieval Europe, Kopparberg made Sweden a major political power; its profits financed King Gustavus Adolphus' part in the Thirty Years War (1618-48), which established Swedish hegemony over Europe for nearly a century. When Queen...
...another new book, The Intelligent Parents' Guide to Teen-Agers (228 pp.; Paul S. Eriksson, Inc.; $3.95), Author Thelma C. Purtell, a Manhattan-based housewife with a Midwestern upbringing, quotes an old hand on an old problem: "Our youth now loves luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect for older people. Children nowadays are tyrants. They no longer rise when their elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers." The author, Mrs. Purtell points out with undisguised glee, is Socrates, and the time some 2,400 years...