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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Perhaps most missed will be Goldie Hawn, that dizzy cream puff who is constantly blowing her lines. Because of her Laugh-In exposure, she landed a feature role in her first movie, Cactus Flower, in which she appears with Ingrid Bergman and Walter Matthau. Next come two more movies and two television specials that, swears Goldie, will be the last. She seems to mean it when she says, "A movie is serious business-it's more important than a television show...
Joey's permanent replacement will be Dick Cavett, a triumph with the reviewers (TIME, June 20), if not with the ratings in two earlier ABC talk shows. But one was aired mornings, the other in prime evening time, and the hope is that in the late-night slot Cavett will finally find an audience up to his level of sophistication...
...find out, TIME London Correspondent Lansing Lament toured Scandinavia for two weeks, talking with government, industry and labor leaders. "Other nations," he reports, "may be plagued by jolting strikes and shutdowns, but in Scandinavia relations between workers and employers remain remarkably serene. This tranquility between such traditionally adversary forces seems at times as magical as a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. It also happens to be the special glory of the Scandinavian economic system...
...stated goal of Sweden's National Trade Union Confederation, or Lands-organisation, is "to give due consideration to the effect of wage developments on the national economy." Sweden's powerful LO represents one worker in every two, and Denmark's LO also has every second worker as a member; Norway's encompasses a third of all breadwinners. Management groups are equally strong, well-organized-and enlightened. Corporations provide quite a few fringe benefits. Oslo's Tandbergs Radiofabrikk, for instance, supplies a gym for its employees and holds parties for them, including one near Christmas...
...Every two or three years in Sweden, representatives of labor and management negotiate an umbrella agreement, setting the rates for wage increases across the country. The terms are then written into detailed contracts for each industry. New contracts negotiated last June provided for an increase of 6.5% during the first year, plus another 3.5% the second year. One reason why employers can afford such increases is that the LOs enthusiastically cooperate in raising productivity, which in Sweden alone has gone up at an average of more than 7% a year during the 1960s...