Word: swede
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family never had an animal menace like this, said British Farmer Benjamin Banham, whose forebears have been tilling the soil near Great Yarmouth for 500 years. "Last fall they cleared out seven acres of my kale and 40 tons of swede [a kind of turnip grown for cattle fodder]." In Burgh Castle, after trapping 460 of the same varments that ate Banham's kale, Farmer John Berry was near despair: "If they carry on the way they do," said he, "they'll be master of the land in three years...
Much of the credit went to the U.N.'s new Congo boss, Dr. Sture Linner, 44, the tall, mild Swede whose friendly new approach was working wonders with the Congolese central government. Unlike India's haughty Rajeshwar Dayal, Linner mixed freely with the Congolese. Said he: "We get along wonderfully well. I happen to like Africans." One result: after long, friendly talks with President Joseph Kasavubu, the U.N. chief was able to move his troops back into the Congo's main port of Matadi; only last March, angry Congolese infantrymen had blasted them out with mortars...
...same plane, but partly redeemed by humor, are the one-joke japes around which Hollywood has built entire pictures. In Marriage-Go-Round an Amazonian Swede decides to have the perfect baby with a married college professor; Happy Anniversary dealt with a married couple's knee-slapping revelation that their 13th wedding anniversary was actually the 14th of their togetherness. Proof that such stories can be first-rate if treated right: Facts of Life, in which middle-aged Suburbanites Bob Hope and Lucille Ball tail a course in infidelity...
...Hammarskjold's defiance of the leader of the "East Side Rocket Gang"-Khrushchev-prompts me to nominate the valiant Swede...
...spokesman in Washington. "We therefore are unable to accept the implications to the contrary contained in various parts of the report." This week, when the General Assembly debated the resolution to decide which Congo faction should be seated in the U.N., other guns would open fire at the stolid Swede. Not the least of them would probably be the Soviet Union, which still longs to squeeze Hammarskjold out of his job entirely. And then there was the irate Joseph Kasavubu to be dealt with. Without warning, the Congolese President, who for weeks has sat sphinxlike in his official mansion, suddenly...