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...Sweden was having similar visions (TIME, Aug. 19). Individual missiles had been streaking over the country since May, but now they were coming in swarms. Last week, Stockholm's Aftonbladet reported that an Army plane collided with one of the "things." Three flyers were killed. Two Swedes boating on a lake barely missed being sunk by one "thing...
...Observers ventured three guesses: 1) the Russians were testing rocket equipment left by the Germans at Peenemünde, the now Russian-occupied V-bomb launching site (110 miles from Sweden); 2) they were trying to impress the world; 3) they were underlining, perhaps coincidentally, their suggestion that Stockholm give Moscow a one billion kronor ($278,500,000) credit, more than Sweden can afford without disrupting her economy...
Strength through Joy. In Stockholm, Sweden, prison authorities out to prove the curse of drink staged a football match between the jail's chronic drunkards and its other convicts: the drunkards...
...fact that they were fired with a new type of weapon. But a picture released by the Army last week finally convinced all the papers (except the Communist) that the rockets were real, and that a foreign power (i.e., Russia) was using Sweden as a testing ground. Blustered Stockholm's Social Democratic Morgantidningen: "Intrusiveness must not be allowed to continue...
Britten's Peter Grimes, first produced in London in June 1945, had already been sung in Swedish in Stockholm, in Flemish in Antwerp, in German in Basel and Zurich. Last week at Serge Koussevitzky's summer music colony at Tanglewood in the Berkshires, U.S. audiences heard three performances in English...