Word: sweden
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Died. Dr. Felix Kersten, 61, Gestapo Boss Heinrich Himmler's personal physician ( "my magic Buddha"), who used his influence over his patient to save 3,000,000 Dutchmen from deportation to Polish Galicia and the Ukraine and 60,000 Jews from death in the gas chamber, moved to Sweden in 1943 and became a Swedish citizen ten years later; of a heart attack; in Hamm, Germany. Kersten was a movingly human figure in the upper echelon of Nazi Germany. Half in despair, half in admiration, Himmler told Italy's Count Ciano: "He is a great nuisance and gives...
...Stockholm's Great Church, lights blazed and television cameras blinked one day last week as Lutheran Bishop Helge Ljungberg solemnly placed an alb and gold-embroidered chasuble over the shoulders of a brand-new minister in Sweden's Lutheran state church. The minister: Elisabeth Durle, 30, who studied pharmacology before she switched to theology, plans to be a suburban curate. Also ordained elsewhere on the same day: Ingrid Persson, 48, who passed her theological exams in 1936 and has been a deaconess since 1949; Margit Sahlin, 46, who is already a member of the Central Committee...
...ordination of the first female ministers in Sweden recalls a longstanding ecclesiastical dispute (TIME, Oct. 21, 1957). A few Protestant denominations in the U.S. (e.g., the Northern Presbyterians and the Methodists) have some female ministers. But to many Christians, the ordination of women was still a long and revolutionary way from the admonishment of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians: "Let your women keep silence in the churches" (I Corinthians 14:34). At least one of the antifeminist fears-the thought of a pregnant woman in a pulpit-was no immediate prospect. All three ministeresses are unmarried...
...Sweden's Volvo P 1800, a sleek, hand-tooled sports coupe powered by a 100-h.p. engine and capable of speeds over 100 m.p.h. Price: about...
...Sweden's penal reform has had no visible effect in reducing crime. Quite the opposite. Whereas the Royal Prison Board in 1944 predicted there would never be more than 2,300 prisoners at a time, today there are 5,268, with 13,000 more on parole or given suspended sentences because prison space is at a premium, even with considerable doubling up. Even so, the board stoutly insists that this is not the fault of lax punishment but the inevitable result of wartime relaxation of morality, slacker liquor laws, etc. Sweden's reported crime rate...