Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time since the days of Max Schmeling, the likeliest challenger for the world's heavyweight boxing title is a European. He is Sweden's Ingemar ("Ingo") Johansson, who last September took only one round to knock out the U.S.'s visiting Eddie Machen, up to then rated the No. 1 contender for Floyd Patterson's crown. In the past, Patterson's unpredictable manager Cus D'Amato has not matched his man with any fighter who could possibly be considered dangerous. But last week Johansson flew into Manhattan, held a summit meeting with...
...Industries (1957 sales: $294,592,000) is constructing a 22,000-kw. boiling-water reactor for the AEC at Elk River, Minn, for completion in 1960, test and research reactors for use in Sweden, The Netherlands and Italy...
Ambitiously billed as starring Sweden's four most beautiful women, the film is a rather lengthy erotic comedy. It concerns the diversion of a lusty lawyer, played knowingly by Gunnar Bjornstrand. While he has affairs with an actress and with the wife of his rival for the actress, his maid, who is attracted to him but succeeds only in seducing his son (an erstwhile divinity student), carries on with a groom. The simplicity of these relationships is, however, complicated by the lawyer's virginal wife's elopement with her stepson, who has finally warmed to his work and abandoned...
...Wastberg '55, presently at the Royal University of Uppsala in Sweden, was a third Harvard recipient. Rotary International this year granted fellowships to 121 students in 33 countries...
...project got under way six years ago in the kind of comedy of confusion that all Frenchmen relish. A group of five architects, Les Cinq (France's Le Corbusier, Brazil's Lucio Costa, the U.S.'s Walter Gropius, Sweden's Sven Markelius, Italy's Ernesto Rogers), was picked by UNESCO to name Les Trois who would actually design the building. The site was changed twice to placate the jittery guardians of Paris' celebrated skyline. With that act over, the U.S.'s Marcel Breuer, Italy's famed master of concrete, Pier Luigi Nervi...