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...Dubious Bludgeon. As the British first conceived it, the Outer Seven could be used as a bludgeon to force the Common Market nations to abandon their tariff discrimination against the rest of Europe. But last week, as the Outer Seven deposited the articles of ratification in Stockholm and became a formal reality. Swedish Commerce Minister Gunnar Lange glumly conceded that prospects of bringing about a wider association between the Outer Seven and the Inner Six "do not seem very bright...
Birgit Cullberg is a bun-haired, 51-year-old Stockholm matron who once planned to be a librarian. But while she was studying literature at the University of Stockholm, she discovered that cataloguing was not really her game: at the remarkably late age of 25 she gave it up to become a dancer. Since then, as one of Europe's most talked-about choreographers, she has been busy constructing her own five-foot shelf of bibliophilic ballets: Medea, Romeo and Juliet, Miss Julie. Last week she was in Manhattan to witness the premiere by the American Ballet Theatre...
...Stockholm's Great Church, lights blazed and television cameras blinked one day last week as Lutheran Bishop Helge Ljungberg solemnly placed an alb and gold-embroidered chasuble over the shoulders of a brand-new minister in Sweden's Lutheran state church. The minister: Elisabeth Durle, 30, who studied pharmacology before she switched to theology, plans to be a suburban curate. Also ordained elsewhere on the same day: Ingrid Persson, 48, who passed her theological exams in 1936 and has been a deaconess since 1949; Margit Sahlin, 46, who is already a member of the Central Committee...
...Bazaar of Avedon's gallery girls: "They belong to women who are sloe-eyed to the soul." For years, most Swedes have believed that Heavyweight Boxing King Ingemar Johansson, 27, and pretty Birgit Lundgren, 23, were much too friendly ever to get serious about each other. But in Stockholm last week, "Ingo" surprised nearly everybody by slipping a plain gold engagement ring on Birgit's finger. Recently back from Egypt, he was asked how much Birgit would fetch on the bride market there. Replied he: "A thousand pounds and 100 camels...
Swedes wryly joke that hardened Finnish criminals have been moving across the border, finding that crime pays better in Sweden. One group of hobby-loving prisoners put together a radio transmitter, and were stopped only when Stockholm police reported hearing dirty ditties being broadcast on the wrong wave length-their own. Another prisoner was held to have carried visitors' day liberties too far. Giving the prison's street address, he had advertised for cuties whom he photographed in the nude for "art" pictures to sell to fellow inmates...