Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midst of all the fretting over the dollar, one respected voice last week offered a detached international view. In Washington, Sweden's Per Jacobsson, perceptive chief of the International Monetary Fund, pointed out that Europe's population is growing only half as fast as the U.S. rate of 1.4% annually, and that as a consequence, "it is fair to expect that over the years to come, Europe will have more capital available than the U.S.'' As the present building boom in Germany and its neighbors runs its course, says Jacobsson, "the flow of funds will reverse...
...California and Eastern hard bop," Romano specializes in "Italian blues," plays entirely by ear, is also a self-taught harmonica and guitar player. Last week he was fronting a combo of five pieces that was packing them in on the Italian nightclub circuit. Two fair blooms of Scandinavian beauty-Sweden's Princesses Birgitta and Désirée-were due in the U.S. this week for a ten-day round of social and ceremonial hoopla that had hostesses atwitter, eligible bachelors preparing to be at their dashing commoner best. Aside from being so easy on the eyes...
...neutrals form a U.N. majority of the center, but a negative one, having little in common except neutrality. Some, like Togo, Gabon and Congo, are just emerging from the jungle. Others, like India and Thailand and Burma, feel themselves heirs to ancient civilizations. Sweden and Nor way are welfare states with highly developed technologies, while Afghanistan and Nepal have only begun to brush aside the mists of feudalism. Secretary of State Christian Herter recently, and unnecessarily, abandoned Ghana and Guinea to the Communist camp. Nikita Khrushchev sneers at the Philippines and Argentina as U.S. puppets...
Positive proof that Sweden's Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman is an admirer of France's favorite adult bedtime storyteller, supreme Triangulator Françoise Sagan, came last December when Ingrid agreed, without haggling about acting conditions or money, to star in a movie version of François latest bundly bagatelle, Do You Like Brahms? Francoise, visiting the movie's set at Paris' Boulogne Studios, obviously reciprocated the admiration...
Theaters have been built which accomodate these opposite forms of staging, such as the large theater in Malmo, Sweden. But in making this possible, large sections of seating are unused (sketch No. 3). Others designs for the "total" theater have been proposed from time to time. Since the seating capacity of out theater was purposely limited, it seemed illogical to abandon seats in order to accommodate flexibility. In other words, the theater should be truly convertible...