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...STOCKHOLM-An M.I.T. scientist, Salvador E. Luria. was one of three men to receive the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine this year...
Denmark Justice Minister Knud Thestrup said he would take the case under advisement. Sources say U.S. reaction is a major concern. In response to Sweden providing sanctuary to U.S. servicemen, Washington withdrew its ambassador from Stockholm...
Erlander, who has led Sweden for nearly a quarter of a century, is a splendid father image-tall, shambling and folksy. Palme (pronounced Pal-muh), who is Erlander's protégé, is something else. The son of a wealthy, conservative Stockholm family, he was educated in an exclusive prep school, served two years in a cavalry regiment, and in 1947-48 spent what he recalls as "an absolutely wonderful year" at Ohio's Kenyon College, majoring in political science and economics and earning a bachelor's degree...
That stirred a controversy, but it was nothing compared with the uproar that followed his February 1968 march through Stockholm's streets shoulder to shoulder with the North Vietnamese ambassador to Moscow, during a torchlight parade protesting U.S. involvement in the Viet Nam war. In a speech to the protesters, Palme claimed that democracy in Viet Nam was "represented in a considerably higher degree by the National Liberation Front than by the U.S. and its allied juntas." Swedes in general oppose the war, but the manner of Palme's gesture blew up a storm. Conservative Swedes were furious...
Found Objects. Born in Stockholm 40 years ago, he grew up in Chicago, where his father was Swedish consul general. "I lived a private, shy life," Oldenburg says, "built around an imaginary country I invented, called Neubern, located in the southern Atlantic." By the age of 16, he was spending a lot of time in burlesque houses. "Talking to the dancers," he recalls, "you found beauty in extremely negative things, because there was nothing else." After four years at Yale and a brief period as a police reporter, he committed himself to art. "I had always thought I would...