Word: laplanders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shorts. Once Parliament decided to switch, Swedish bureaucracy mobilized with terrifying efficiency. Psychologists made studies of drivers and pedestrians; traffic engineers surveyed Sweden's 70,000 miles of roadway from Malmo to remotest Lapland. Thousands of new signs and traffic lights were ordered and every home, hospital and prison received manuals detailing the 107 basic European road symbols that would replace the helter-skelter Swedish markers. To make sure foreign workers and visitors got the message, the Commission on Right-Hand Traffic printed pamphlets in nine languages from Portuguese to Serbo-Croatian...
SCANDINAVIA has opened its salmon-fishing preserves to the public, and sportsmen can buy rights to fish for rates ranging from $35 to $3,000 a week, depending on the richness of the rivers. A placid but entertaining attraction is the "dollar train" from Stockholm to Lapland, a seven-day, $425 railroad cruise through the magnificence of the fiords and mountain country...
...Titles. Without rhetoric, moral or otherwise, without fancy phrases, the Victorian author simply describes his exploits in bed, in attics, boudoirs, brothels, houses of assignation, fields, lanes, etc., and in every country except Lapland. The descriptions of the sex act are austerely limited by his own preoccupation with the topography of the erogenous zones. Faces and other physical characteristics of the regiment of women were secondary, though he had some interest in dress - the package, as it were. He was not an emotional man. He had a cold scientific interest in his own satyriasis...
...world was busy celebrating Pablo Picasso's 85th birthday last week. Some dozen exhibitions have opened from Lapland to the Los Angeles County Museum and Macy's department store in New York City. Bags full of mail and telegrams arrived at Mougins, a tiny town above the bay at Cannes on the French Riviera, where Picasso lives. Grateful citizens of Vallauris, the town Picasso resurrected by reviving its pottery industry, sent a huge bouquet of red roses with a white dove in a cage, and their children sent batches of their best crayon drawings. His wife Jacqueline...
Frozen Instant. To evoke Pasternak's poetic imagery, Lean led a camera unit almost to the Arctic Circle, hired Lapland nomads to portray Siberian refugees. To record the long train trip from Moscow to the Urals that is the central odyssey of the novel, Lean went into below-zero temperatures in the northern Finnish lumber town of Joensuu, photographed the "refugees" trekking across Lake Pyhaselka, over which, during the 1940 Russian invasion of Finland, the Soviets had actually laid a winter railway...