Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nazis overran Denmark in April 1940. At first they did not bother Bohr, despite his part-Jewish ancestry. Then, in 1943, he learned that he was slated for arrest. That same night Bohr, his wife and his son Aage sneaked aboard the fishing boat Sea Star and escaped to Sweden. (He was the kind of man about whom absent-minded professor stories are told, and legend has it that he had kept a bottle of heavy water, then important for atomic research, hidden in his refrigerator; in his hasty departure he left the heavy water behind and rescued an ordinary...
Last night the first lecturer in the series, Mme. Rossel of Hammarskjold's own Sweden (the country from which his job usurped his political devotion, but never his cultural sympathy) spoke of the U.N.'s most personal and humanitarian works: the series started where it should, with individuals. But appropriate though this beginning is, the tough-minded Secretary-General would have encouraged a series that went on from here to lectures whose ideas might influence the expansion of the scope of international organization, and of respect for international law. The most tangible steps toward reform, development, and the relief...
...Mexico's brilliant but erratic Rafael Osuna and Antonio Palafox: a tense, 3-2 victory over Sweden's Ulf Schmidt and Jan Erik Lundquist in the Davis Cup Interzone semifinals at Mexico City. Palafox lost both his singles matches, but teamed with Osuna to win the doubles in four sets, and Osuna outlasted Lundquist 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 in the deciding singles match. Next stop for the Mexicans: New Delhi, where they will play India for the right to take on Australia next month in the challenge round...
Only the fourth Russian ever to win a Nobel physics prize, Landau would almost surely have been allowed to go to Sweden for next month's ceremonies. But the great physicist is in a Moscow hospital, his memory still partially gone, his health still seriously impaired by the skull fracture and the eleven other bone breaks he suffered in an automobile accident nine months ago. Canadian Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield was flown in to join physicians from Russia, France and Czechoslovakia in the effort to keep Landau alive. For the Soviets hardly needed the Nobel committee to tell them...
...Robert Marjolin, one of the Common Market Commission's three vice presidents, declared that he detected in Europe all the classic symptoms that herald the end of an economic boom, and speculated that "a recession might occur at the end of 1963 or later" And last week Sweden's Per Jacobsson, much respected head of the International Monetary Fund, reminded his fellow Europeans that "business expansion does not go on forever," and warned that he saw "signs of a slackening in some fields...