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...fact, all his life Lewis was by disposition a journeyman commercial writer. In his youth he sold plots to Jack London, and when he came home from Stockholm with the Nobel Prize, he sat down to write some popular magazine fiction. Like other writers whose personal tastes are those of a mass public, he viewed all his work-including his magazine stories and movie scripts-with equal seriousness...
...ceremony usually accorded to Swedish kings, at Uppsala, the city where he grew up and studied. It had been a long way home: 5,000 miles from Ndola. the small Rhodesian town where the Secretary-General had been bound to negotiate peace in Katanga. When the body arrived in Stockholm aboard an American DC-yC, 250,000 mourners gathered for a torchlight procession. At Uppsala the closed casket, nearly buried in flowers, was placed in the 13th century Lutheran cathedral, where 15,000 townfolk came to say their farewells...
Footholds, however, are rarely enough for Litton. "We like vertical strength," explains Ash. One typical chain of Litton acquisitions began two years ago, when Litton bought Stockholm-based Svenska Dataregister, a manufacturer of point-of-sale electronic scanning and recording devices that can be linked to computers for instantaneous inventory control. Last January Litton bought a company that makes the equipment that links the point-of-sale recorder to the computer and the tags the scanners read. Last June Litton completed the circle by acquiring a company that makes the adhesive for the tags. Plain Front. Despite Litton...
Chassis & Chalices. The green-eyed descendant of a long line of Swedish musicians, painters and architects, Torun began her career at a Stockholm school of industrial arts, where she fashioned everything from parts of automobile chassis to handwrought silver chalices. Drawn to Paris, she set up shop in a cheap Left Bank hotel, developed the technique that she has followed fairly consistently ever since. Not wishing to disturb her fellow tenants by hammering, she would draw and file her silver strips until they could be bent and twisted and hooked into graceful designs...
First sign of the dip in England came in May, when American tourism dropped 10%. Car rentals have slowed 20%. The Savoy reported that while its clerks are still turning down applications for rooms this year, the application rate is much lower. In Stockholm, hotels got their expected tourist increase not from Americans but from Finns, and Copenhagen travel agencies are getting a higher-than-usual rate of cancellations (as high as 20%). In Italy, hotel and tour cancellations from Americans are running anywhere from 10% to 35% ahead of last year...