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...midst of his rehearsals for a new stage production, Stockholm police collared the master. Whisked off to the police tax division, Bergman was grilled on suspicion that he had failed to report $119,000 as income from his former Swiss-based company. "What happened is painful and humiliating," protested Bergman, 57, insisting that he had no knowledge of any tax problems: "I leave that up to my lawyer...
...past 15 months, several hundred agents in Stockholm, Athens, Lisbon, Madrid, Mexico City, London and Paris have had their covers blown, mostly by leftist papers. Last week the leftist French daily Liberation, founded by Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, disclosed on two successive days the names of 44 CIA people in the Paris embassy, including the home addresses and telephone numbers of the top officers. In London, a trendy weekly social and entertainment guide called Time Out named three new CIA employees in the U.S. embassy (in 1975 Time Out printed the names of 62 CIA people with a chart...
When the award to Sakharov was announced in October, the Soviet press dismissed the Nobel Prize as "a cold war weapon" and denounced the five-member Nobel committee for "political speculating." Still, the Kremlin last week dispatched Economist Leonid Kantorovich to collect his own Nobel Prize in Stockholm (where all but the peace awards are distributed), and sent five former Russian winners as well...
...occasion was the 75th anniversary of the first Nobel awards ceremony. The Nobel committee invited all past winners of the heavy gold medal to Stockholm. Of the 80 who made it to the ceremonies, 32 were from the U.S. Among those present: Albert Szent-Györgyi, 82 (Medicine, 1937) and Glenn Seaborg, 63 (Chemistry, 1951). The uniquely distinguished group was put through a tight schedule of formal receptions, sightseeing and museum visits. Mostly, though, the scholars wanted to exchange scientific gossip and give lectures on their specialties. "It's beautiful-terrific!" said the U.S.'s Gerald...
...anonymous letter mailed to King just before he was to go to Stockholm in 1964 to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, the FBI warned: "King, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is ..." Committee Counsel F.A.O. Schwarz Jr. said that "this was taken by Dr. King as a suggestion for suicide...