Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jonny Nilsson, 19. stubby-legged student engineer from Filipstad, Sweden: three new world records at the world speed skating championships in Karuizawa, Japan. Gliding happily through a blinding blizzard that coated him with snow and slowed down his rivals, the unheralded Nilsson sped 10,000 meters in 15 min. 33 sec., won the 5,000 meters in 7 min. 34.3 sec., and set yet another record by winning the all-events championship with the best score ever...
...World Meteorological Organization, the seven members of the European Free Trade Association met last week to revive a marriage that they would much rather have seen dissolved. Until Charles de Gaulle's rejection of Britain's bid for Common Market membership, most of its EFTA partners (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, Portugal) had also banked on joining the Six. Instead, as they ruefully surveyed the damage, the Outer Seven seemed farther out than ever...
...Monastery. "I found what I had been looking for," he recalls, "a place where a Lutheran could become a monk." After briefly testing his vocation at Taizé, Kreinheder gave up his job as a merchandise manager for Detroit's J. L. Hudson department store to study in Sweden for the ministry, and after his ordination in 1956 decided to try organizing a Taizé-style community...
...past several years, its guests have ranged from high royalty and heads of state (Belgium's Leopold III and son Baudouin, President Félix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, France's Pierre Mendés-France, Italy's Umberto, the Princesses Brigitta of Sweden and Alexandra of Britain) to plain old actors and artists (Joan Crawford, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Armstrong, Ava Gardner, Melina Mercouri, Lionel Hampton and Pablo Casals...
...France, Le Plan has helped to double industrial production over the past decade and create the Continent's strongest economy. Sweden and The Netherlands have held labor costs in line with a plan that sets annual wage increases after informal contacts among chiefs of government, unions and management. Italy and Belgium are in the process of setting up their own economic plans. Britain's Conservatives have fathered a pair of twins known as "Neddy" (National Economic Development Council) and "Nicky" (National Incomes Commission). The only major holdout to the idea of state planning is West Germany, where planning...