Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least ten nations have lower infant mortality rates than the U.S.; if the U.S.'s rate were as low as Sweden's, 40,-000 babies that now die each year would be saved...
Professor Holger Hyden, of the faculty of medicine at the University of Goteborg, Sweden, will deliver a lecture titled "The Biochemical Aspects of Learning and Memory" at 8 p.m. to night in Lowell Lecture Hall Prof Hyden's lecture is the first of four in a series sponsored by the Graduate School of Education on "The Neuro-physiological and Biochemical Bases of Learning...
...true colors" that he was never able to display publicly. Van Dusen finds the explanation in a singularly unhappy childhood. Hammarskjold worshiped his gentle, pious Lutheran mother, from whom he received a conventional religious upbringing. He admired, yet feared, and perhaps hated his stern disciplinarian father, who was Sweden's Prime Minister from 1914 to 1917. As he worked his way through the ranks of his country's civil service, the brooding, lonely man often contemplated suicide. "My life," he wrote darkly, "is worse than death...
...Gusti, have you been busy here lately?" But she was equally proud of his accomplishments, used to remark: "I didn't marry a King. I married a professor." And very like a professor the King still acts, always carrying a pocket magnifying glass and often remarking that if Sweden ever got rid of his crown, he could always go to work in a museum...
Night Games. Mai Zetterling is a Swedish cinemactress who in middle age has ventured to look through the other end of the lens. In Loving Couples she saw Sweden as the land of the midnight fun. In Night Games she sees it as a heap of moral garbage. The film as a result made a certain stink at this year's film festivals. At Venice it was banned from public showing, at San Francisco it was berated as "pornography for profit." The statement was made by Shirley Temple, a critic with rather frivolous credentials, but it is essentially correct...