Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...currently lying on her back with knees raised in a gallery of Stockholm's Museum of Modern Art. A cross between an amusement park and a return to the womb, She is one of the most uproarious, outrageous-and incredibly popular-exhibits to make its debut in Sweden's capital in years...
Bright, fresh, satirical and full of surprises, She is the result of a month-long collaboration by three of the zaniest sculptors anywhere around: Switzerland's Jean Tinguely, a maker of mad machines; Niki de Saint-Phalle, his American-born friend, famed for her outsized Nana dolls; and Sweden's Per Olof Ultvedt. The three started out full of enthusiasm, which never slackened for a second. Says Tinguely": "It's a Noah's ark, Gulliver's Travels, the tower of Babel. It's like being in an airplane, a factory, a church. Everything...
...contrary, "the obvious truth is that not a single one of our European allies has sent a solitary soldier to the support of our enterprise," Galbraith said. "Sweden, a country hitherto noted for neither unintelligence nor malignant anti-Americanism, has thought so little of our policy that she has imposed an arms embargo -- a quarantine -- upon...
Rumanian Trade Minister Gheorghe Cioara has just finished a nine-day tour of West Germany. Rumanian Foreign Minister Corneliu Manescu is headed for Rome, and Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki for Sweden. French Foreign Minister Couve de Murville in recent weeks has popped up in Warsaw, Sofia and Bucharest. Fortnight from now Charles de Gaulle goes to Moscow...
...Sweden's Dr. Clarence Crafoord, one of the world's greatest heart-lung surgeons, caused a public outcry earlier this month when he suggested that a person should be declared dead when a flat EEG pattern shows that his brain has definitely and irrevocably ceased to function. Dr. Crafoord was concerned about truly hopeless cases, but the kin of patients being kept alive with mechanical aids jumped to the conclusion that he meant the devices should be shut off, the patients declared dead, and their organs used for transplants...