Word: politician
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DIED. Bertil Ohlin, 80, Swedish politician and economist who shared, with England's James E. Meade, the 1977 Nobel Prize in Economics; in northern Sweden. At 25, the handsome, precocious Ohlin was a full professor at the University of Copenhagen and an expert in international trade. A practitioner as well as a theorist, Ohlin was Sweden's Trade Minister in a wartime coalition government (1944-45). Chief of the Liberal Party from 1944 to 1967, he waged a lifelong battle to check the growth of socialization in Sweden...
...confusion that occur when two families who don't know each other and who have, to say the least, conflicting values, meet for dinner. Their aim is to cooperate in a civilized manner in the marriage of their only children. The girl's father is a French politician noted for his devotion to an organization known as the Union of Moral Order. It is supposed to rescue traditional standards from their assault by wayward modernism. The boy's father (Ugo Tognazzi) is a homosexual. But not just any ordinary homosexual. He is the owner of the nightclub...
...will inspect beef cattle and beauty queens and shout to everyone that "I am proud of being a politician!" He will tell his audiences that he is sick and tired of hearing that professional politicians are not worthy of trust, that he is fed up with amateurism...
...George of small business, Levitt, 48, son of a New York Democratic politician who was the state's unbeatable comptroller for 24 years, may be making a virtue of necessity. The American Stock Exchange, after all, has long been a home for smaller companies. When he became its chairman in January 1978, he inherited a roster of restless firms whose ambition was to grow large enough to be listed on the Big Board, the New York Stock Exchange. Levitt, who now earns more than $200,000 a year, says he discovered that these companies had "little representation in government...
...greatest contribution to civilization in this century may well be air conditioning-and America leads the way." So wrote British Scholar-Politician S.F. Markham 32 years ago when a modern cooling system was still an exotic luxury. In a century that has yielded such treasures as the electric knife, spray-on deodorant and disposable diapers, anybody might question whether air conditioning is the supreme gift. There is not a whiff of doubt, however, that America is far out front in its use. As a matter of lopsided fact, the U.S. today, with a mere 5% of the population, consumes...