Word: malmo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shorts. Once Parliament decided to switch, Swedish bureaucracy mobilized with terrifying efficiency. Psychologists made studies of drivers and pedestrians; traffic engineers surveyed Sweden's 70,000 miles of roadway from Malmo to remotest Lapland. Thousands of new signs and traffic lights were ordered and every home, hospital and prison received manuals detailing the 107 basic European road symbols that would replace the helter-skelter Swedish markers. To make sure foreign workers and visitors got the message, the Commission on Right-Hand Traffic printed pamphlets in nine languages from Portuguese to Serbo-Croatian...
When the funeral ended, church bells tolled from Malmo to Malmberget; then everything in Sweden stopped abruptly for a moment of silence. Among the 2,000 invited guests was the Ambassador of Russia, which in the last year of his life had denounced Hammarskjold as "a bloody-handed lackey of the colonial powers." President Kennedy sent Lyndon Johnson, U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. Said Johnson: "The name of Dag Hammarskjold has entered history-and history confers its highest honors for heroes of peace." Dr. Ralph Bunche, who as a U.N. under secretary worked closely with Hammarskjold, was near tears. Said...
Theaters have been built which accomodate these opposite forms of staging, such as the large theater in Malmo, Sweden. But in making this possible, large sections of seating are unused (sketch No. 3). Others designs for the "total" theater have been proposed from time to time. Since the seating capacity of out theater was purposely limited, it seemed illogical to abandon seats in order to accommodate flexibility. In other words, the theater should be truly convertible...
...along with the harshly materialistic, there is another America." In Braunschweig, West Germany, the Goslarsche Zeitung critic ran out of superlatives: "How can one write criticism when the whole evening was without a flaw?" Acclaim awaited the quartet in small towns as well as big: In Sweden's Malmo (pop. 192,498), they turned down an offer of a three-month teaching contract; in a town in the French Alps they were toasted in champagne by the local chamber music society. Financially, the tour was less successful : because they decided to take their families ("It's the best...