Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Simple & Sensuous. Torun early discovered that most European women had only two choices in buying jewelry: either the impossibly expensive or the gaudily cheap. Her own pieces sell for as little as $4, rarely cost more than $120. Torun's clients include Sweden's Princess Margaretha, Ingrid Bergman, Juliette Greco, Oona Chaplin and Duke Ellington. Once, in Biot, an 80-year-old washerwoman stopped Torun in the street and said: "I saw your daughter Pia wearing a lovely necklace. Would you make one like it for my daughter?" Happily, Torun...
...domestic spending while he raised the military budget, G.O.P. leaders praised the tone of the talk, agreed to cooperate with Democrats in passing the necessary legislation for Kennedy's signature this week. Allied leaders wired their approval to the White House, and even such neutrals as India and Sweden had cautious praise. Newspapers across the land and in Western Europe approved of the statement with few qualifications; mail to the White House ran 100 to 1 in favor of the President in unprecedented quantities. Awakened to full understanding that the U.S. would go to war if all else failed...
...road to teen idolatry, Margret took dancing lessons in a Chicago suburb, where the family moved from Sweden when she was six. Her debut as a radio singer was not auspicious: she lost out on an amateur hour when she was 16 to a Mexican leaf player. Leaving Northwestern University at the end of her freshman year, she got a job singing in a restaurant lounge, was heard and hired by George Burns for his Las Vegas show. Burns gave her some professional advice: get out of her new red velvet slacks and into black Lastex and cashmere...
...Since its founding in 1946, reliable Scandinavian Airlines System always turned a profit-until last year, when ambitious expansion projects brought a loss of $16 million on revenues of $127 million. Last week SAS's tri-nation board (Sweden, Norway, Denmark) set off a public uproar by firing popular Managing Director Ake Rusck, 49, and hiring coolly brilliant Kurt Nicolin, 40. An aeronautical engineer who helped design Sweden's first jet engine, Nicolin comes to SAS "on loan" from ASEA, Sweden's largest electrical complex, where he has been managing director...
...much some artists can convey just in the eyes! Look at the torment in Sweden's greatest dramatist, Strindberg, as Norway's greatest artist, Edvard Munch, captured it; or the intensity in Shahn's Freud; or the burning glance of Stuart Davis' James Joyce; or the clown's proverbial subdued sadness in Loren Maclver's Emmett Kelly...