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Secrets of Women. In Ingmar Bergman's first comedy, as in the later films, A Lesson in Love and Smiles of a Summer Night, the Scandinavian warlock gaily examines matrimony and finds it ridiculous...
...Since its founding in 1946, reliable Scandinavian Airlines System always turned a profit-until last year, when ambitious expansion projects brought a loss of $16 million on revenues of $127 million. Last week SAS's tri-nation board (Sweden, Norway, Denmark) set off a public uproar by firing popular Managing Director Ake Rusck, 49, and hiring coolly brilliant Kurt Nicolin, 40. An aeronautical engineer who helped design Sweden's first jet engine, Nicolin comes to SAS "on loan" from ASEA, Sweden's largest electrical complex, where he has been managing director...
Secrets of Women. In Ingmar Bergman's first comedy, as in the later films, A Lesson in Love and Smiles of a Summer Night, the Scandinavian warlock gaily examines matrimony and finds it ridiculous...
Died. Pola Gauguin, 77, last survivor of the impassioned postimpressionist's five legitimate children (at least one illegitimate child still lives in Tahiti), better known for a Maugham-correcting biography of his defecting pere (My Father, Paul Gauguin) than for his Scandinavian art criticism, architecture and painting; of a heart attack; in Copenhagen...
Cruel to the Young. Many travelers in Britain conclude that the British are kinder to animals-parakeets, dogs and horses -than to children. A horrified Scandinavian told an Englishman, "You treat your children like dogs," and then had to explain that no compliment was intended. An official of the N.S.P.C.C. charges that cruelty to the young is common to every class, income group, and area: "All over the country children are ill-used, and too many parents think they have the right to beat their child unmercifully and beyond the limits any human being should be called upon to endure...