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...this week, fully a third of all Sweden's liquor stores will be out of akvavit altogether. Bootleggers turned up furtively with the popular Brännvin akvavit, asking $20 for the bottle which normally sells for $5. "A disaster," muttered one Swede, waiting his turn in a Stockholm queue. In the south, some desperate Swedes were even hopping ferries across to Denmark to seek relief at Copenhagen bars...
Olle and Barbro Stahl live in Stockholm's working-class Stora Essingen District. Every morning Olle, 32, kisses Barbro goodbye at the door of their flat and drives his Volkswagen to the city's Vantor parish church, where he is a curate. Barbro, 30, spends an hour or so with her son Krister and then goes across her garden to the Essinge parish church, where she is assistant pastor...
...letters whom I hold in respect and reverence," said Author John Steinbeck 60. "But I am impelled not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession." Perhaps it was the fact that he stood on the Stockholm rostrum with five scientists (one American, four British) or perhaps it was just the old itch to shock. But at the end of his acceptance speech Steinbeck took the occasion to suggest a small revision in an older work by another author, with which some were certain not to agree...
...beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God." So began the author of St John's Gospel, in a classic Christian definition of God the father's eternal coexistence with his son. Last week Novelist John Steinbeck, in Stockholm to accept his Nobel Prize for literature, suggested a new gospel to match the beliefs and ambitions of modern...
...least 20 women from half a dozen nations have made the pilgrimage to Stockholm since August in the hope that they, too,could get a legal abortion-as did TV Performer Sherry Finkbine of Phoenix, Ariz. (TIME. Aug. 10, Aug. 24), because she had taken thalidomide early in pregnancy. But the national Medical Board, which must pass on all such requests, seems in no mood to let Sweden get a reputation as an abortion mill for foreigners. It turned down the request of a Los Angeles schoolteacher who had sold all her possessions to raise the fare to Sweden...