Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...building materials. It looked like a junkyard. Back home, she organized committees to take over old bomb sites and equip them in the same way. The kids thought that they were the best thing since ice cream. There are now 28 adventure playgrounds in England, and dozens more in Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland...
Princess Christina of Sweden, who spent last year as a junior at Radcliffe, attended the ceremonies "to be with and congratulate" her former classmates...
Deepening Division. What worried Wilson concerns political leaders and businessmen throughout Europe: the deepening division between the Outer Seven (Britain, Sweden, Norway,Denmark, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland) and the Inner Six (France, West Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, The Netherlands). On Jan. 1, 1967, the European Free Trade Association's final internal tariff reductions go into effect, to be followed six months afterward by those of the Common Market, and the worry is that trade patterns will become so set within the blocs that attempts to join them will be increasingly fruitless...
...first things the American learns is that the working habits and foibles of European workers are not easily tampered with. The Europeans expect-and get-longer vacations (four weeks in France) and more legal holidays (14 in Sweden) than in the U.S. They also cling to their own ways, no matter what the efficiency experts say: Germans like their bottle of beer on the job, the French must have their daily liter of wine, and the Spaniards insist on a three-hour siesta at midday. A U.S.-owned factory in Amsterdam barely averted a walkout over how the cafeteria food...
...that Lundahl, who also belongs to the U.S. Ku Klux Klan, had been negotiating for some time with the United Arab Republic. He had asked for Egyptian arms, with which a prospective 1,000 Nazi followers would seize Stockholm. In return, Lundahl promised to confiscate all Jewish property in Sweden, execute important Jews, and provide the U.A.R. with 5,000 troops in a war against Israel...