Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope that they, too,could get a legal abortion-as did TV Performer Sherry Finkbine of Phoenix, Ariz. (TIME. Aug. 10, Aug. 24), because she had taken thalidomide early in pregnancy. But the national Medical Board, which must pass on all such requests, seems in no mood to let Sweden get a reputation as an abortion mill for foreigners. It turned down the request of a Los Angeles schoolteacher who had sold all her possessions to raise the fare to Sweden. By last week, the board had approved only one more application-for a woman from West Germany...
...Tjio (pronounced Chee-o), 43, now at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., a citizen of The Netherlands and a native of Indonesia. While doing cancer research at the University, of Lund in Sweden, Tjio...
Small Hello. Having whipped the U.S., Yugoslavia and Sweden to gain the interzone finals against India, the Mexican team arrived at New Delhi's Palam airport expecting the usual amenities. But not an Indian appeared to meet them. When the Mexicans finally made contact with the Indian Lawn Tennis Association, they got a small hello. Right up to the time they left home, the Mexicans imagined that the matches would be played in cool, dry New" Delhi, as originally scheduled. But then the Indians switched to steamy Madras, 1,000 miles to the southeast, where their own players...
...generally lackluster sport. Mexico's No. 1, Rafael Osuna, 24, who perfected his tennis as a student at Southern Cal, had proved himself a one-man gang in earlier cup matches, trimming the U.S.'s Jon Douglas in a close match and beating both Sweden's Ulf Schmidt and Jan Erik Lundquist...
Soon after Bohr reached Sweden, a British bomber arrived to pick him up. During the dangerous flight, while the bomber dodged German fighters, he almost died of asphyxiation from a faulty oxygen mask. From England he went on to the U.S., where the news that he had brought in 1939 had already mushroomed into the enormous Manhattan Project for constructing the first atom bomb...