Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early this year Sweden simultaneously cut its income tax and increased its national sales tax from 4.2% to 6.4%. Denmark has a similar reform in the works. Even the Russians, notes the First National City dourly, recognize the adverse effect of income taxes on incentive, and proclaim their ultimate intention to abolish income taxes entirely...
...inexpensive to build an opencut channel around the dam. But the massive Soviet drills-of a type that was obsolete in the West 25 years ago- failed to make headway in Egypt's volcanic rock. Over Soviet protests, Nasser ordered batteries of light, rubber-tired rock drills from Sweden, and imported Swedish rock engineers to supervise their operation. Even so. in temperatures of 135°, metal surfaces blistered the human hand. Summer work was done mostly at night under the glare of brilliant floodlights. The rock hauling has been delayed by frequent breakdowns of Russian dump trucks, which cost...
...European nations rang up the biggest increases in exports of manufactured goods. Some of the heavy gainers: Italy (16%), Sweden (12%), West Germany (11%), Switzerland (10%). The U.S. gain worldwide: practically none...
Died. Raoul Nordling, 79, Sweden's consul general in Paris for 32 years, winner of France's highest honor, the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, for saving the city from destruction in August of 1944 by arranging a truce between the Resistance and German troops until the Allies arrived; of a heart attack; in Paris...
...novel published in the U.S. in 1951, the same year he won a Nobel Prize, Sweden's Pär Lagerkvist explored the question with spiritual insight and intellectual distinction. In the script for this film, which is based on the novel, Britain's Christopher Fry has both dramatized and deepened the novelist's reflections. With the result that Barabbas is a cinema curiosity almost as rare as a whale that spouts holy water: a full-color, widescreen, multimillion-dollar religious spectacle that is also, at many points, an intense and illuminating religious experience...