Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...having landed a prize catch this year: Pianist Artur Rubinstein. Doing the festival rounds even faster than the fleetest-footed music tourist will be a gaggle of other big-name artists. The speed and distance record probably goes to famed German Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who will dash between Scandinavia (Helsinki, Bergen), Switzerland (Lucerne), Belgium (Ostend), France (Aix and Besanqon) and Spain (Granada). Almost as agile will be the U.S.'s own great Philadelphia Orchestra, whose stops will include Lugano, Vienna, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Stockholm, Helsinki...
...Swiss have been hard hit by competition from the German watchmaking industry. Unhampered by rigid price fixing, the Germans have snatched up a fat slice of the Swiss watchmakers' markets in Scandinavia, the Far East and the U.S., with prices as much as 20% lower. On top of that, Swiss watchmakers, whose exports to the U.S. were already dropping, were further hurt by the 50% boost in U.S. tariffs last summer (TIME, Aug. 9). Their exports to the U.S. market dropped from $68 million in 1953 to $51 million in 1954, and are still running down. As a result...
...spare for export before 1957. Actually, relatively few countries have facilities to make the vaccine; only a few areas in the world have a serious polio problem, for clinical polio is a disease that goes with high standards of hygiene and sanitation. Highest recent incidence abroad: Canada, New Zealand, Scandinavia. "An American gift to the world" is what the Toronto Daily Star called the vaccine, and as far as Dr. Jonas E. Salk and his colleagues were concerned, it was literally a gift. They are not getting a penny from the vaccine's manufacture (the six pharmaceutical firms making...
...ball feting French air cadets in Sweden's university city of Uppsala, Lieut. General Axel Ljungdahl, chief of the Swedish air force, executed some fancy foot maneuvers with the eldest daughter of King Gustaf VI Adolf, glamorous Princess Margaretha, 20, one of Scandinavia's most eligible bachelor girls...
...grateful not only for the chance to have direct contact with Americans, but also to meet other Europeans. As one Stockholm youth put it, "Perhaps Americans believe that people from the different Europeans countries know each other well. At least for me... the knowledge of other European countries outside Scandinavia before the Seminar was very much less...