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...Palme, 49, tendered his resignation as Prime Minister-the post he had held since 1969-to the Speaker of Parliament, and vowed to "continue to be a driving force in Swedish politics." He will now head a caretaker government for a few weeks until Center Party Chairman Thorbjörn Fälldin (pronounced fell-dean), 50, names his Cabinet and becomes Prime Minister...
When Edgar Bronfman was a little boy, his father built a bicycle path behind the wall that surrounded the Bronfman estate rn Montreal. That way Edgar could ride in complete safety from any danger of kidnapers. It was a few years after the Lindbergh kidnaping, and Sam Bronfman was a man who liked to anticipate trouble and take precautions. That was a trait he had inherited from his father, Yechiel, who had been a prosperous miller in Bessarabia in Eastern Europe. When Yechiel went to Montreal in 1889 in flight from Russian antiSemitism, he booked passage not only...
...game that has gone truly international, the American champion ship competition has the biggest and best field of foreign players in its 93-year history: 80 performers from 26 countries. Some of the most talented competitors are the youngest, led by Swedish Wunderkind Björn Borg, 18, seeded fourth after his sweep of the Italian and French opens earlier this year and a recent victory in the U.S. Pro Championships in Brookline, Mass. If Borg falters on the grass at the West Side Tennis Club, Sweden's sorrow could turn into joy for Argentina or Mexico. The hottest...
...Secretary John Volpe was "The Bus Driver"; Defense Secretary Melvin Laird was "The Bullet"; Postmaster General Winton Blount was "The Postman"; and Martha Mitchell was known as "The Account," an advertising term for a client. Nixon himself was above nicknames; in memos and meetings he was referred to as "RN," or "the President," or occasionally by his military code name, "Searchlight...
...plans and elevations that showed a flowering of concrete shells, like sails or beaks, rising to a height of more than 200 ft. above a horizontal podium. There was only the sketchiest indication of function. The architect, an almost unknown 38-year-old Dane named Jørn Utzon, had worked none of that out; he did not, as he later remarked, expect to win. Utzon's victory, it is believed, was largely due to one of the judges, the late Eero Saarinen, whose own fondness for shell construction had been embodied a year before in his design...