Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peace talks on the island of Rhodes, where the Arabs and Israelis, for the record at least, never directly faced each other. Proposals were shuttled between the two sides by Dr. Ralph Bunche-a role that could now be played by Dr. Gunnar Jarring of Sweden...
...gave his people visions of glory and grandeur. He prodded them to compete on a superpower scale-as builders of rockets, proprietors of an independent nuclear force, dispensers of foreign aid, and shapers of an all-embracing world strategy. Now comes Pompidou with his promise to turn France into "Sweden, with a little more sunshine...
...worst of times: the first half of the 17th century. Spain rotted. The German principalities writhed. Sweden, France, Spain and even Switzerland were seething with religious mania. The European peasantry was regularly picked over by tax collectors and aimless bands of soldiers detached from all allegiance. Trade patterns kept collapsing. The gaudy corpse of feudalism weighted the Continent, but there was nothing, apparently, strong enough to winch it out of sight...
...SPEAKER BANKS TOO CLOSELY WITHOUT PROTECTIVE EAR MUFFS. All around stretched an undulating, thick-pile carpet of humanity. Three of the Beatles were there, and three of the Rolling Stones, and celebrities like Actress Jane Fonda and her husband, Film Director Roger Vadim. So were bedraggled pilgrims from Sweden, Holland, Australia, the U.S. and every corner of Britain, many of whom had hitchhiked for days to get there with bedrolls and rucksacks on their backs. For a week, brightly colored tents had dotted the festival grounds. For the past twelve hours, the idolaters of rock had been staked...
France, The Netherlands and Denmark have been forced to impose price freezes on nearly every variety of goods and services sold within their borders. All three countries, along with West Germany, Italy, Belgium and Sweden, have recently raised bank interest rates (some of them several times) in an effort to restrain borrowing. Almost everywhere in Europe, factories are humming at or near their capacity, but consumers are spending money so fast that some firms cannot fully meet the demand for their products. French automakers, for example, are making many domestic buyers wait for delivery of new cars because they...