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GUNNAR JARRING, who is known as "the Silent Swede," suddenly found himself cornered one day last week by a group of reporters near his office on the 38th floor of the United Nations Secretariat building in Manhattan. Pelted with questions about the Arab-Israeli discussions that he has been summoned to conduct on behalf of U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, the Swedish diplomat recited an aphorism in Hindi, one of a dozen languages that he knows. Then he translated it: "All is all right." With customary caution, Jarring immediately added, "I mean that only personally...
There are other cases: the Russians have trained descendants of Pavlov's dog to carry mines to tanks. During World War II, a Swede trained young seals to carry limpet charges. They were rewarded with cream-a classic mobilization of guns and butter. Skinner regards the cat stratagem as overly complex but theoretically possible. "The only trouble is," he observes, "that cats get airsick...
Lumumba Monument. Mobutu is very happy in the role of a grand chief. He flies around Kinshasa in an Alouette helicopter piloted by a silver-haired Swede, drives about in Mercedes 600 limousines and sails the Congo River in his yacht the M.S. President Mobutu. Besides his house in the paratroop camp, he maintains a palace on Kinshasa's Mount Stanley and lavish villas in Lausanne and Abidjan in the Ivory Coast. To counteract rumors that he is a neocolonialist at heart, he has sought to identify himself with his old enemy Patrice Lumumba. Currently he is building...
...after a 3½-hour luncheon with Secretary of State William Rogers, Palme seemed inclined to be conciliatory. In a National Press Club speech, the Swede temperately defended his policy of "active neutrality." Asked Palme: "Don't we want people to stand up for their honest opinions when they do not coincide with ours...
...Gurney, a long time Ford driver, signed a contract to drive Plymouth's new 'Cuda this year. Gurney's company. All-American Racers, has two cars, one for Gurney, and another for his young protege, Swede Savage. With a name like Swede Savage, you have to be good or you wouldn't be able to show your ??ace around a race track. Dodge's Challenger, basically the same as the 'Cuda, is being campaigned by the Autodynamics Corporation, from Marblehead. Sam Posey, one of the new stars on the U.S. racing scene, is the driver...