Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increase in the Common Market to 235 million people. Nor is that all: Denmark, Ireland and Norway among Britain's European Free Trade Association partners are queueing up right behind London to join the EEC. Of the other EFTA Seven, Austria already has in its application for association, Sweden and Switzerland are likely to apply, and only backward Portugal will be condemned to watch the rush toward a uniting Europe from the sidelines...
Some time late in July, Charles de Gaulle will sail into Montreal harbor aboard a French warship. Castro and Tito are expected, as are Lyndon Johnson, Harold Wilson, Emperor Haile Selassie, Queen Elizabeth of Britain, Princess Christina of Sweden, Belgium's Prince Albert and The Netherlands' Queen Juliana. A complex computer-linked operations board will be used to plot each minute of every state visit to be sure that entourages never encounter one another...
Unlike such dynasties as the Windsors in Britain and the Bernadotte kings of Sweden, Greek kings in this century have never been content to reign as figureheads; they like to rule too. Resentment over the Greek King's penchant for mixing in politics boiled over at the start of World War I, when the first Constantine exerted his influence on behalf of Greek neutrality. Constantine was forced into exile by a Cretan political wizard named Eleutherios Venizelos, and the feud went on for decades. The monarchy's popularity plummeted even further when George II backed the military dictatorship of General...
While unfamiliar to Americans, computerized shopping is not completely new in Europe. It has been tried without notable success by smallish markets in Normandy and Sweden, and at least one big Swedish food chain has rejected electronic shopping. "Our customers wouldn't enjoy running around collecting cards instead of merchandise," says Paul Brundin of Gothenburg's Turitz & Co. "Shopping should...
...from 14 companies in ten different countries. Among them: Chrysler International's controller, Fiat's man in Cairo, the assistant to the president of Spain's Barreiros Diesel, officials from France's Credit Lyonnais, Britain's Rolls-Royce, the U.S.'s IBM and Sweden's Saab...