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...forest-encircled town of Kalmar, Sweden. After cheating his way through school, and with an engineer's diploma in his pocket, Ivar began ricocheting around the globe. He did wiring jobs on Manhattan's Plaza and St. Regis Hotels, operated a restaurant -in Johannesburg. Back in Stockholm in 1908, he co-founded the building firm of Kreuger & Toll. Then he took over his family's three match factories, was shortly gobbling up competitors and building his giant Swedish match combine...
...Marks the Spot. Part of the enigma of the Match King is that the man who commandeered millions spent comparatively little on himself. He maintained elegant apartments in Stockholm. London, Paris, Berlin, Warsaw and New York, but these were almost business necessities. He had little interest in women. His favorite possessions were two Rolls-Royces and three high-speed motorboats...
Last week the U.S. embassy in Stockholm revealed that the Makars had written a letter "without a return address" renouncing their U.S. citizenship. During their stay in Sweden, they had gone to the Soviet embassy, declared their desire to become Soviet citizens, had finally boarded a plane for Moscow. There, in a downtown hotel, they furtively tried to avoid Western newsmen. But they had already spoken freely to the Soviet press, explaining that they had come to Russia because it had a big head start in Makar's field, "while in the United States we were just starting...
Rossby felt that the vigorous, hard-shelled U.S. type of meteorology was in good hands. It might be better for him to start at a new level, studying neglected properties of the atmosphere. With the help of the Swedish government, Rossby set up in Stockholm the International Meteorological Institute, which soon became a place of pilgrimage for meteorologists, both European and American...
Aside from continued study of atmospheric circulation, Rossby's favorite program at Stockholm has been "atmospheric chemistry." The atmosphere, he and his researchers have found, is anything but uniform chemically. Parts of it, for instance, are full of sea-salt particles which are responsible for a common kind of rainfall. Not much is known about them, although they may be one of the factors controlling the world's climates. The chemicals in the airborne salt, for instance, are not in the same proportion as they are in the sea. No one knows why, and Rossby wants to find...