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...work in the two languages. Lexicographer Gullberg subscribes to and carefully reads 40 English-language publications, including the London and New York Times, the Financial Times, the Economist, the Guardian, TIME and LIFE. His first and main source of new English words and terms is TIME. When our Stockholm correspondent asked him why, he in turn asked: "Where else can I get a publication that gives such coverage to every branch of human activity...
...past year, the overall cost-of-living index has risen a jarring 35% in Buenos Aires, 10% in Rome, 6% in Stockholm, 5% in Lisbon and Istanbul. Stockholm now leads all other cities in the cost of food, followed by Tokyo, Oslo, Helsinki, Paris and Rome; New York ranks all the way down to seventh on the list. Hotel rates are highest in Paris and Mexico City ($26 a day for a single), but a stay at the best hotels in Johannesburg and Lisbon costs only $7 a night...
...Stockholm's Caroline Institute last week awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine to three French investigators for brilliantly imaginative research into the mechanisms by which genes regulate vital biochemical processes. Though the work has no present practical application, it has inspired hundreds of other researchers, and hopefully, within a generation or so, it may lead to means of controlling genetic processes in humans. The three Pasteur Institute scientists who will share the $56,400 prize...
...descendant of Bounty Mutineer Fletcher Christian-gave birth to four girls and a boy in Auckland's National Women's Hospital. Only two days later, Karin Ohlsen, 33-year-old wife of a Swedish teacher, delivered three boys and two girls in Falun General Hospital near Stockholm. Both mothers had been given injections of Gemzell's hormone, and both women reacted by producing at least five ova at the same time. By midweek, four of the Swedish quints had died, but at week's end the other six Gemzell babies were alive under cover of their...
...presented at the American Artists Center in Paris, we would like to state how much we, in turn, disagree with his obsolete thinking. The art of revolt and hallucinations, the awareness and new meaning of freedom, which are coming out of the happenings produced in Paris, New York, Amsterdam, Stockholm or Tokyo-all that is too much for Professor Barr. But for us, it's only a beginning...