Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peer at a flock of wild geese flying overhead, astride one of which is a ten-year-old boy, Nils. Most of the scene was shot from a hovering helicopter and two time-consuming retakes were needed. Patiently doing his bit: good old (79) King Gustav VI Adolph of Sweden. ∙ ∙ ∙ The cornerstone for the new Wigan Girls High School was all inscribed: "Laid by the Rt. Hon. Hugh Gaitskell, A.D. 1962." But just a few hours before the Opposition Labor Party leader was to come up from London to do the honors, he learned that the school...
Died. Sir Eric Vansittart Bowater, 67, British builder of a $600,000.000 pulp and paper empire that began with a small family paper company, eventually became one of the world's largest producers of newsprint, with pulp mills from Sweden to South Carolina; in West Horsley, Surrey...
Initially, at least, New Zealand's commissioner would not have the broad investigative powers of Sweden's ombudsman, notably the right to scrutinize judicial and local government procedures. Furthermore, he will be required to hold preliminary hearings in private, although in Sweden, Finland and Denmark, the ombudsman's strongest weapon is the widespread, chastening publicity that results from open investigation. To critics who want more powers for the commissioner, the government replies that when the first grievance man is appointed-probably by year's end-his effectiveness will not depend so much on his legal prerogatives...
...University of Southern California, beat Jon Douglas. Though McKinley won as expected, Mexico took the competition, three matches to two. Next for the surprising Mexicans is the American zone final against Yugoslavia in Mexico City this weekend. After that, the American zone winner will fight it out with Sweden, the European champion, and India, winner in the Far East, for the chance to challenge Australia in December. And all the while, the U.S. will once again be on the sidelines...
Stepping off the train in Stockholm, Dwight Eisenhower knew reporters would be asking him about his 1960 remarks blaming Sweden's high suicide rate, drunkenness, and lack of ambition on its social welfare state. Ike's first words were: "Before anybody gets a chance to ask, I want to make clear that the remark about Sweden was based on what I had read in an American magazine. Since then, I have−had many friends who have returned from Sweden and told me that I was wrong. I admit it and apologize for my error." Later, touring...