Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wasn't there, Charles de Gaulle, also dominated the deliberations of Europe's other trade bloc last week. Meeting in Copenhagen, the seven members of the European Free Trade Association-Britain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria and Portugal-argued over how hotly to pursue their long-range goat of closer trade ties with the Common Market. The big question: Would a major effort only backfire by stirring the French to cause more trouble inside the European Economic Community...
...Real Danger. The fiber makers are crossing borders and oceans to vie for markets. Courtaulds is building plants in Sweden, Imperial in Portugal, Holland's Algemene Kunstzijde Unie (A.K.U.) in Spain. Farbenfabriken is building in Belgium, Chemstrand in Scotland, Firestone in France. Du Pont will finish a new Dacron and nylon plant in Germany next year...
Such idiosyncrasies of taste make the export business as tricky as it is lucrative. The Flintstones are No. 1 in Sweden and the favorite viewing of Rhodesia's Sir Roy Welensky, but they were ignominiously reduced to background characters in a fly-spray commercial in Italy. Perry Como hit a clinker on Germany's Infratest ratings, Andy Williams on Britain's TAM's. And even blockbuster Bonanza was clobbered by Rawhide in Korea. Another complication in foreign-syndication sales is that U.S. shows come in awkward lengths (a half-hour program has only 26 minutes...
...middle classes do. Health is also a poverty problem. The poor suffer mental illness at a sinister rate, triple that of the middle and upper classes, according to an investigation in New Haven, Conn. Mostly because of its poor, the U.S. has a lower life-expectancy rate than Holland, Sweden, Israel and Great Britain...
...decline in therapeutic abortions for almost two decades, thanks to medical progress, two disasters spurred the current increase. First was the thalidomide tragedy, which left some 10,000 European babies deformed or crippled, and in the U.S. led to the publicized case of Sherry Finkbine, who went to Sweden to be aborted. The other was an even worse disaster: the German measles (rubella) epidemic that began late in 1963 in New England. It moved slowly across the U.S., is still claiming victims in the Pacific states, and is expected to leave more than 30,000 U.S. babies stillborn or crippled...