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...Sweden's royal palace had only one painting on its walls. That was the year Queen Christina came to the throne: 22 years and 500 paintings later, she had made Stockholm into the Athens of the North. Now 300 years and 14 monarchs later, Sweden has still another royal art lover. He is Gustaf VI Adolf, 84, and he collects things Chinese...
...Once, lost in a fog in a minefield, he unerringly determined his ship's position by tasting a sample of sea bottom brought up by the lead; while towing the Shah of Persia's yacht to the Caspian Sea via Russia, he smuggled two girls aboard at Stockholm and kept an orgy going in the Shah's big oval bed during the crossing to Leningrad...
...Huggins, 65, of the University of Chicago. But each man seemed to have lost his chance long ago. It is more than 50 years since Rous did his pioneering cancer research, more than 25 since Huggins made his impressive contributions to treatment of the same disease. But last week Stockholm's Royal Caroline Institute belatedly corrected both glaring omissions. It named Drs. Rous and Huggins to share the 1966 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine, worth...
...their people to visit the West. Despite careful screening, some 35,000 of them will have defected. "One emigrant in a party is within the allowed margin," says an Eastern European tour guide. "When you lose six or seven, they start asking questions." Of 17 Hungarians who visited Stockholm last May, nine stayed behind. On a tour of Greece this summer, the Rumanian State Opera lost a soprano, a ballerina, the first cellist and a violinist...
...Sweden, the shortage of loan funds is such that high-priority apartment construction in Stockholm has been cut back 40%, and the average wait for an apartment is now ten years...