Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bull in Charge. Assigned for two-year hitches, U.N. soldiers rarely volunteer for more. Recently Palestine's fourth Chief of Staff of the U.N. Truce Supervision Organization, General Carl von Horn of Sweden, pulled out, roundly accused by the Israelis of being pro-Arab.-Into Jerusalem last week to succeed him flew a Norwegian air force general with the head-snapping name of Odd Bull ("Odd is a very common Norwegian surname, and Bull is a very old Anglo-Saxon family name"). Bull, who led a U.N. observer team in Lebanon in 1958, seemed to be heading into renewed...
...black granite walls of the Stockholms Enskilda Bank is a coat of arms that bears a sober motto, borrowed from Aeschylus: Esse non Videri - to be, not to seem. In line with this injunction, the family that runs the bank has become the most powerful and wealthiest in Sweden, without seeming to be the fiscal princes they...
...Wallenbergs either control outright-or persuasively advise-no fewer than 50 Swedish companies, or more than half of Sweden's industry. Directly under Wallenberg management are most of Sweden's international companies, including plane-and automaking SAAB, the $275 million telephone equipment manufacturer L. M. Ericsson, the $500 million ballbearing producer SKF, and Stora Kopparberg, a diversified mining and mineral complex (TIME, March 15). The family also guides Stockholm's largest department store and the company that runs the city's three most luxurious restaurants. In no other industrialized nation in the world does one family...
...Sweden for Swedes. The Wallenberg who started it all was André, who visited the U.S. and Scotland as a young naval lieutenant, became fascinated by banking and founded Stockholm's first commercial bank in 1856. His Enskilda Bank became the chief funnel through which foreign capital entered Sweden, and André and the succeeding Wallenbergs directed the flow of foreign funds to finance Swedish industrialization...
...middle-class Opel; Marcus has a Buick and usually does the driving-but he has a chauffeur to answer the car's radiotelephone. An expert yachtsman, Jacob skippered his 59.4-ft. yawl Refanut to victory in last year's 350-mile Baltic race. Marcus was Sweden's tennis champion in the 1920s and is still an expert player; he also excels at pingpong...