Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years and through two world wars, Sweden has stayed doggedly neutral. But if there were a next time, could an innocent bystander sit out a nuclear war? Sweden's answer has been not to join NATO, but to spend some $200 million on the world's most" elaborate civil defense installations, including huge underground shelters. Some of Sweden's man-made caves...
...Sweden Tage Erlander's Socialists, who have dominated Swedish politics for 25 years, returned to power with a limited mandate. The nation's 4,000,000 ballots were split evenly for and against them. Socialists gained six seats but fell short of a majority in the 231-seat lower house, will still need the help of the minuscule Communist Party (five seats) to maintain their welfare state, and put through a new program to pay everyone in retirement a pension that is two-thirds of the average of their 15 best years' salary. The election showed...
Smiles of a Summer Night is a delightful amoral piece of Sweden which won the Grand Prix at Cannes a few years ago for various good reasons. Perhaps the judges also had never before seen a film in which the eternal games of love and sex were treated with such lighthearted wit, enthusiasm, and candor--and good taste. In fact, I strongly suspect that hardly anyone has ever seen love and sex handled so suavely in real life. Moreover, all four of the film's female leads live up to both Sweden's and Brigitte Bardot's reputations for young...
Helping some 3,000,000 Minnesotans celebrate their statehood centennial last week were Norway's comely Princess Astrid, daughter of King Olav V, and Sweden's Prince Bertil, third son of King Gustaf VI Adolf. Earlier, the royal junketeers, who looked none the worse for the four-day hullabaloo, had found time for New York shopping and lunch in Washington with President Eisenhower and Mamie. But Bertil, who arrived in the U.S. two days earlier than Astrid, had one regret: no time for golf...
...charmed a cobra, parachuted from 13,000 ft., tamed a lion, dived in a frogman's gear to a dangerous depth of 200 ft., and was stopped only by open water in an attempt to ski across the Baltic Sea from Finland to Sweden. Other Jämsä stunts...