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...Scandinavian tourists troop off the ferry with light portable ladders to prop against the high stone wall. Sheep Island is a long way from Stockholm, the wind is bitter, and the wall is high. But to them the object is worth the search-a glimpse of Bergman and what Swedes euphemize as his latest "little home companion." If they are lucky, they can see a brilliant glint of strawberry blonde hair and the planed face with its saddle of freckles and wistful smile...
...worked, the scheme might have been a public relations coup of sorts for the ruling Greek junta. Two months ago, acting on a Scandinavian complaint that the Athens regime had unjustly suspended constitutional rights in Greece and was permitting the torture of prisoners, the Human Rights Commission of the Council of Europe, an 18-nation organization created to foster social and economic progress, called a special closed session to hear testimony. The Greek government complied by sending several heavily guarded ex-prisoners to the hearings in Strasbourg -but only after ordering them to deny all allegations of torture...
Plastics will revolutionize the way our homes look as much as the Bauhaus or the Scandinavian moderns did. They can be brightly pigmented and highly light reflecting--we may be surrounded with color and shine at no extra cost. Opaque orange umbrella stands and chairs and translucent turquoise inflatable armchairs are at the show and on the market. Many of these furnishings are still outrageously expensive, but prices will go down...
...British party remains alienated from Moscow; so do nearly all the other West European and Scandinavian parties, except the tiny hard-line groups in Portugal, Luxembourg, West Germany and West Berlin. Whether the voters will understand these new distinctions is another matter. The Finnish and Swedish parties both suffered severe losses in recent elections, even though their leaders had denounced the Soviets at the time of the invasion...
HUNGER. A grim Scandinavian-made portrait of a writer on the skids in a big city, with two outstanding performances by Per Oscarsson and Gunnel Lindblom...