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Last week the Chinese scored a major success in that strategy. After 20 months of negotiation in Stockholm initiated by Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Peking and Ottawa announced that they would establish diplomatic relations immediately. Trudeau had also agreed to break off relations with Nationalist China, but Taipei beat him to the punch. Just before the new Peking-Ottawa link was announced, Taiwan's Ambassador Hsueh Yu-chi severed his country's diplomatic ties with Canada and took leave of the country in a tearful farewell scene...
Science has long recognized the role of nerve fibers in carrying messages from the brain to the muscles and organs of the body. But only recently has it begun to understand the complex mechanisms by which these messages are transmitted. Last week Stockholm's Royal Caroline Institute honored the work of three scientists whose research has laid the groundwork for that understanding. It awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine to Professor Ulf von Euler of Sweden, Sir Bernard Katz of Great Britain and Dr. Julius Axelrod...
This dreamlike visual overture is a stroke worthy of that renowned master of the cinematic art, Ingmar Bergman. And no wonder. The Hedda unveiled by the National Theater troupe last week is a special restaging by Bergman of his 1968 Stockholm production. In it, the play moves out of the sitting room and into the psyche. Bergman's stage is relatively bare and expressionistic, luridly lit when it is not dark. On the peripheries of many of his scenes, characters who are supposed to be offstage linger to eavesdrop on the proceedings that concern them. Somewhat eerily, this shifts...
...diplomatic recognition and is planning to offer North Viet Nam $30 million in postwar aid. In recent weeks, Swedish demonstrators have hurled eggs and epithets at the new U.S. Ambassador, Jerome Holland, a black educator who heard himself jeered as a "nigger" when he stepped off the plane in Stockholm...
...part of an $865 million expansion program backed by the huge resources of its parent, International Telephone and Telegraph. Sheraton's 1,000-room hotel in Paris' Montparnasse, due to open in 1974, will be France's largest; the company is also erecting hotels in Stockholm and Buenos Aires. Jose Melia, Spain's largest hotel operator, is also building the 1,000-room Melia Castilla. in Madrid. Some governments follow Berlin's example by giving tax concessions on tourist construction. Results vary: 25 hotels are under way in Singapore while three are rising...