Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time & Pangs. He did, but it took time. After spending six months in jail, he went to Sweden to recuperate, but there he contracted pleurisy and pneumonia. On doctor's orders he went to a seacoast village in Kenya, Africa, spent the next six months skindiving to rebuild his lungs and suffering through the pangs of withdrawal. He married a Swedish girl, settled in Elsinore, Denmark, in a villa in the shadow of the famed Kronborg Castle, and played throughout Europe for the next three years. When he returned to the U.S. in 1961, he was playing better than...
...Inspired not by international understanding but by cold cash at the box office. Stringing a film with talent from three different national markets−the U.S., France, Sweden−is like fishing with three hooks instead...
Modest to Generous. In Great Britain, managing directors of the largest companies seldom are paid as much as $90,000 a year in salary; many get less than $20,000. Executive salaries among major industrial companies are rising faster on the Continent than in Britain. In keeping with Sweden's philosophy of a one-class society, executive salaries are generally modest; the average president of a Swedish company with at least 500 employees makes about $30,000. The total income of Sweden's best-known executive, President Curt Nicolin of electric-equipment maker ASEA (for Allm...
...Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, Canada, Belgium and The Netherlands...
Demand for skilled and often for unskilled workers outstrips the supply in Britain (unemployment rate: 1.3%), and in The Netherlands, Australia, Sweden and Japan (all .9%), and in West Germany (.5%). The squeeze is tightest in West Germany, which has 683,000 vacant jobs for 106,000 persons on the unemployment rolls. The shortage would be even worse if Italy, Greece, Turkey, Spain and Portugal were not continuing to export labor; of northern Europe's 4,000,000 foreign workers, 24% are in Germany. Even so, wage boosts this year in Germany (8%) and England (61%) have leaped ahead...