Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME pointed out [Nov. 15], there has been a strong reaction in Sweden against the perversion and dirt of Ingmar Bergman's film The Silence...
Movies and TV could help to restore national character in Sweden and America, along with definite standards of right and wrong. In those fields I believe Sweden can and will contribute daringly and decisively with productions that will last long after The Silence has been buried in silence...
...complain of government bureaucracy or badly muddled industry, they often wind up saying: "What's needed is a Nicolin." The man who has entered the Swedish language as a symbol of the shake-up and the clean sweep is tall, squarejawed Curt René Nicolin, 42, one of Sweden's brightest young businessmen and the chief troubleshooter for the family that controls or persuasively advises more than half of all Swedish industry, the Wallenbergs. Says Banker Marcus Wallenberg: "Nicolin has a sense and a feel for management...
UNESCO needed another plan quickly. The solution came from Sweden. The Swedes proposed cutting the temple and statues into sections, raising them to the top of the cliff and reassembling them about 1,000 feet from the present site. The whole process should cost about $36 million. The U.A.R. has promised $11.5 million and the United States $12 million in Egyptian pounds, to be taken from payments for surplus American food. With the $7.5 million already collected, UNESCO lacks only $5 million and work can safely begin...
...French, who now have "le plan" for everything, last year set up a government agency to regulate and stimulate research. It carefully selects public and private projects, issues orders as to what directions they should take, and subsidizes them-but on a budget of only $20 million. Sweden, with limited funds and a much smaller industrial base than the U.S., preplans and sets limited goals. Largely ignored, as a result, is the daring and unapplied "basic" research on which such teams as A.T.&T.'s Bell Laboratories thrive...