Word: stockholm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unmarried women who conceive a child has a legal abortion. All a woman need do to have one is to convince a social worker that the birth is "unsuitable." About 5,000 women, married and unmarried, are admitted to hospitals each year for legal abortions. A professor at Stockholm's largest women's clinic was reported for "cruelty" because he told a patient that the abortion she was about to have was the same as murdering one of her previous children. An Uppsala doctor was called a "fascist" in letters to the press because he made the statement...
...took her idea to Indian leaders. Why not, said she, collect cultural, religious and scientific dignitaries of Asia into one grand "nonpartisan" conference to promote the cause of peace and brotherly love? The idea came to her, or was put to her, at last year's Communist-run Stockholm conference for "the reduction of world tension." Cousin Jawaharlal and leaders of his Congress Party gave their consent. Invitations went out to the capitals of Asia. and Indian President Rajendra Prasad agreed to welcome the delegates to New Delhi. The Congress Party's tough anti-Communist Bombay Boss...
...Ingrid Bergman returned to her native Sweden to play Joan of Arc at the Stake at the Stockholm Opera. Then she announced that as soon as the engagement ended she would leave Sweden forever. Reason: aggressively personal press attacks. Sample statement: "[Ingrid Bergman is] being exhibited for money by Roberto Rossellini, with whom she has three children and one Rolls-Royce...
...modern game of ice hockey. They developed it in the late 19th century after they got tired of a British sport called bandy.* They could usually be counted on to turn out the best amateur team in the world. Then last year, Toronto's Lyndhursts went to Stockholm and embarrassed all of Canada: they lost the international championship to the Moscow Dynamos, a bunch of hard-skating sportsmen from the MVD, Russia's security police...
...storm the big house. As one of the masked men tried to leave the legation, he was captured by the cops. He said that he and his accomplices were all members of a Rumanian anti-Communist resistance movement and had planned the action (and others in Stockholm and Copenhagen) as a protest against the imprisonment of prominent resistance leaders in Rumania. His companions were armed with automatic weapons and grenades, he warned, and would resist "until death" because they knew that there was no escape for them. Searching him, cops found papers he had scooped up in the legation. After...