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...well beat Seagren to 19 ft. is Kjell Isaksson, who is relatively unconcerned about the type of pole he uses. The wiry little (5 ft. 8 in., 145 Ibs.) Swede has broken the world record three times this year with springy vaults that give him the appearance of coming off a trampoline instead of a pole. Says Seagren's former track coach, Donald Ruh: "Bob is a classic vaulter. Isaksson is more gymnastic. He makes it look almost effortless because he gets so much flyaway on top." Adds Jenks: "Bob overcomes that by being stronger, faster and taller...
...other hand, Swedes are cushioned from birth to death against a wide variety of social and economic jolts. When a Swede cannot work because of sickness, he is insured against lost wages. When he is too old to work (over 67), he can collect up to two-thirds of his salary annually. Cities are sparkling clean, and police and fire services are excellent. Rail transport is modern and efficient, as are the highways. A monthly ticket on Stockholm's smooth-running subway, good for unlimited rides, costs...
Particularly for people who earn more than the Lundmark family, income taxes are as steeply progressive as Everest. On a salary of $10,000 a Swede pays 43% of his income in national, local and old-age pension taxes. On $20,000 he pays 53%, and on $40,000 his combined levy is a brutal 63%. Loopholes are almost nonexistent, and deductions are rare. Corporate income taxes, which average 53%, are less severe because, unlike individuals, companies can deduct from their national tax the amount they pay in local taxes. Even so, Sweden's leading business magazine, Veckans...
...ante. The scene is now the neo-Honeymooners apartment of Celia and her husband Phil (Simon Oakland), a retired master sargeant. Swede (Conrad Bain), an old army buddy, has just arrived and the two men are up to their elbows in cans of beer and talk of the army, the fights and other things that generally just aren't what they once used to be. Celia, a childless, tired woman, her hair--as described by her own mother--a gaudy "change-of-life red," tries to force the conversation to include herself. She gossips about the neighbors, laments the marriage...
...Nashville's Vanderbilt University, he remained calmer than the newsmen while a Swedish journalist in the group placed a transatlantic call to a colleague who was waiting outside the room at Stockholm's Royal Caroline Institute where the Nobel Prize Committee was voting. After a while, the Swede suddenly turned from the telephone and gave Sutherland the news: he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for his long study of hormones, the chemical substances that regulate virtually every body function...