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...more standard practice is for travelers from Eastern Europe to finance their trips by bringing back Western goods. Nylons from the U.S. will bring $5 or $6 in Warsaw. Professional Polish operators regularly swing far bigger deals. Gangs travel two or three times a week to the Baltic port of Gdynia, where they buy up to 100,000 ballpoint pen refills at a time from returning seamen and resell them at a profit of 300% to 400% . Similar trade flourishes in nylon blouses, sweaters, cigarettes, perfume, cosmetics, sunglasses and zippers. If the risks are high, so are the rewards: some...
...vacationing West Germans flocked to and from their cities last week, 150 extra trains rolled across the country between the Baltic coast and the Alps. Although Germany has one of the highest automobile densities in Europe-one car for every eight people-travel still means trains. And trains in Germany mean Deutsche Bundesbahn, the federal railway whose reasonable fares, remarkable luxury and religiously on-time operation make it a favorite of the German people. With 19,000 track miles, the Bundesbahn is not only one of the West's largest railway systems-it was put together in 1920 from...
Denmark has a special charm, a blend of Baltic wit and North Sea sauce. And the pride of Danes stems from more than possession of Tuborg and Carlsberg beer, or of Europe's oldest royal house. "The Danes are superb salesmen of themselves," sniffs a Swede. "They play their little-mermaid, Hans Christian Andersen image to the hilt." Some 4,500,000 people live in the tidy land north of Schleswig-Holstein, and they wallow in hygge (pronounced HUG-ga), which simply means coziness. It is an indispensable word in Danish that reaches everyone, everywhere. People plan a hyggelig...
...country she describes as being "on the corner of the world. People don't pass through it. They come to turn and go back." The Scheins live in a rambling house in a pine forest. It has tall, leaded windows that look over a bay of the Baltic Sea. There are rabbits and squirrels all over the place-"and one owl, and one fox." It is eight minutes from the heart of Stockholm...
...been easy going. "Whenever any American suggests that we act in accordance with the needs of our own security," he wrote to a friend in exasperation, "he is apt to be called a goddamned fascist or imperialist, while if Uncle Joe suggests that he needs the Baltic provinces, half of Poland, all of Bessarabia and access to the Mediterranean, all hands agree that he is a fine, frank, candid and generally delightful fellow who is very easy to deal with because he is so explicit in what he wants...