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...Visiting Stockholm four years ago, Dallas earth-moving Contractor Robert F. Thompson flipped on a hotel radio, found that he had struck Dullsville. Being a government monopoly, Swedish radio had a heavy accent on culture-worthy classics. What the Swedes really needed, felt Thompson, was a competing station offering an easier U.S. blend of pop music, commercials and more news. Dallas Tycoon Thompson decided to provide it. Buying a 3,300-ton German coastal freighter, Thompson renamed it Bon Jour, recruited deckhands and a disk jockey, surrounded them with broadcasting equipment at a total estimated cost...
Simplicity is the greatest virtue of the plot: a young fashion model, Doris (Harriett Andersson) and her boss, Suzanne Brown (Eva Dahlbeck), journey from Stockholm to Gothenberg, the former to get away from her cloying fiance and the latter to try to renew a once torrid love affair with a married businessman, Mr. Lobelius (Ulf Palme). In another of his brilliant characterizations, Gunnar Bjornstand portrays the aging consul, who picks up Doris and plays Santa Baby with her for a day. He buys her a gown, a necklace, and a hot choclate with whipped cream; he quietly retches...
...denouement is complete when back in Stockholm, Doris is rehired and reunited with her fiance and Suzanne tears up an apologetic letter from Mr. Lobelius...
Stepping off the train in Stockholm, Dwight Eisenhower knew reporters would be asking him about his 1960 remarks blaming Sweden's high suicide rate, drunkenness, and lack of ambition on its social welfare state. Ike's first words were: "Before anybody gets a chance to ask, I want to make clear that the remark about Sweden was based on what I had read in an American magazine. Since then, I have−had many friends who have returned from Sweden and told me that I was wrong. I admit it and apologize for my error." Later, touring...
...signal) and the Ericofon, a telephone that has earpiece, mouthpiece and dial all in one unit. Ericsson's salesmen have spent as long as six years in a new country making their pitch and landing their first contract. Each year the company brings nearly 100 foreign engineers to Stockholm to train them in the use of Ericsson equipment...