Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Princess Birgitta of Sweden, 25, former gymnastics teacher and granddaughter of King Gustaf VI Adolf, and Prince Johann Georg von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, 29, doctoral candidate in archaeology at the University of Munich: a prince (who will automatically be excluded from Lutheran Sweden's royal line of succession because his father is a Roman Catholic...
...tormented life of the playwright Johan August Strindberg, the darkest time fell between the years 1893 and 1895. The government of his native Sweden-"the land of the nonadult, the disenfranchised, the mutes"-had tried to suppress his work as "blasphemy." Penniless, he settled in Paris with one summer suit to his name, for summer or winter wear. His second marriage was going badly, confirming his obsessive distrust of women who, he said, "admire swindlers, quack dentists, braggadocios of literature, peddlers of wooden spoons-everything mediocre." He himself was close to madness -a shabby, shuffling figure who dabbled in alchemy...
...driver's growing fondness for pizazz. So high was public enthusiasm at the Geneva showings that both Saab and Volvo are confidently looking forward to their biggest spring orders ever. Neither new car, however, will go on sale in the U.S. until it has been exhaustively tested on Sweden's tortuous roads. Says Volvo's Engellau: "If we didn't keep up the Swedish reputation for quality, we'd be dead ducks...
Saab (stands for Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget-Swedish Aircraft Co. in English) has been Sweden's leading plane manufacturer since 1939. But when prospects for the airframe industry began to look dim after World War II, Saab's aircraft engineers went to work designing a car. By 1950 they produced a wind tunnel-tested model that was nearly perfect aerodynamically, but had to be redesigned to hold people. Since then, under the prodding of slide rule-toting Managing Director Tryggve Holm, 57, Saab has become the car for the automotive purist who revels in its front-wheel drive...
Through a Glass Darkly. Sweden's icily intelligent Ingmar Bergman infuses unexpected warmth of feeling into a darkly metaphysical drama that depicts the birth of God in the form of an enormous spider...