Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grabbing the Oars. In the midst of the scramble to get Sweden's Margaretha to the church on time this week, Scandinavia's royals had to act relaxed and be nice to Nikita Khrushchev, who descended with his family for an 18-day goodwill tour of Denmark, Sweden and Norway. There were moments of levity, such as the time when Khrushchev startled Swedish Premier Tage Erlander by grabbing the oars of a boat and rowing him nonstop across a 300-yd. lake. But all in all, Nikita was no great hit anywhere. He miffed the Danes right...
...Khrushchev's gibes at Scandinavian capitalism particularly galled the Swedes, who have remained neutral in the cold war and are doubly furious at having to spend $57 million to revise their defense planning as a result of Colonel Stig Wennerstrom's espionage for Moscow (TIME, May 8). Sweden is intensely proud of the humane, egalitarian society it calls "industrial democracy"-and with reason. From poverty so desperate that hundreds of thousands of its people fled to the U.S. in the 19th century, hardworking, ingenious Swedes have not only turned their predominantly capitalist economy into the world...
...visitor may be whisked from a new nuclear power plant outside Stockholm to 500-year-old Uppsala University, where the founder of modern botany, Carolus Linnaeus, studied in the 18th century. ("God created," say the tidy Swedes. "Linnaeus put things in order.") Stockholm cops, though issued guns during Khrushchev's visit, normally cling grimly to their accustomed sabers. Proud Viking longboats are lovingly preserved in an Oslo museum. At Drottningholm, a summer palace across Malaren Lake from Stockholm, 18th century operas are staged for the public with their original sets in the only surviving court theater of the period...
...Castle where the royal family lived in the past. And they did not revolt when a too-candid picture revealed that the towering (6 ft. 4 in.), rugged King had a chestful of tattoos. Norwegians felt genuinely sorry for King Olaf, a dedicated yachtsman and onetime Olympics champion, when Khrushchev's visit forced him to forgo a regatta at Hanko Island last week...
...Buffet is visible stuck to a background wall. Pavel Nikonov's somber Still Life with Pestle and Mortar, with its Braque-like greys and browns, and Aleksei Tyapushkin's still life with flowers on table are also painterly achievements. Sculptor Ernest Neizvestny, who was personally scolded by Khrushchev for his modernism, draws dynamic nudes...