Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sweden's royal palace had only one painting on its walls. That was the year Queen Christina came to the throne: 22 years and 500 paintings later, she had made Stockholm into the Athens of the North. Now 300 years and 14 monarchs later, Sweden has still another royal art lover. He is Gustaf VI Adolf, 84, and he collects things Chinese...
...Gustaf began digging for viking relies in, of all places, the gardens of Sweden's sumer castle. He found none, but that did not blunt his enthusiasm for further exporation. He studied archaeology at Uppsala University, and while a student, unearthed one of his nation's most precious artifacts-a gold-plated sword dating from Sweden's Iron Age. As the young Crown Prince, Gustaf in 1926 visited the Orient, where he met Swedish archaeologists busy uncovering China's prehistoric ages. Fascinated by the similarity between Viking and ancient Chinese bronze objects, Gustaf began collecting, helped...
...special terror for the Pankow regime: before the war, he was in the top echelon of the German Communist Party. He was Ulbricht's pal and peer, gave orders to many of the men who now make up East Germany's coterie of bosses. Arrested in Sweden in 1941, he renounced Communism from his jail cell and was expelled from the party. Ever since, his former comrades have regarded him as a traitor and a menace. Twice their gunmen have tried to kill him, and his appointment as All-German Affairs Minister brought bitter screams of rage from...
...Unlimited Nonchalance." Probably the best proof of Françoise's intelligence is that she does not kid herself about her work. Her songs invariably leave her "dissatisfied four or five months after." Of her first film, Sagan's A Castle in Sweden, she recalls how "all the critics said everybody was bad but me. I was not good, but I wasn't as bad as they expected...
...building less new housing per capita than such countries as Austria, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia and even hard-pressed Britain; per-capita U.S. output is only about half that of Sweden, West Germany...