Word: danish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, Dr. Dalldorf explained at the awards luncheon in Manhattan, the Coxsackie criminal has been shown to be an international syndicate of about 30 viruses in two groups. Some cause Iceland's pleurodynia, or "devil's grip," and Bornholm disease (named for the Danish island in the Baltic where it was first reported). Others cause a rapidly fatal inflammation of the heart muscle in the newborn. One sets off a severe sore throat unaptly named herpangina. Several behave like polio's little brothers. And, said Dr. Dalldorf, now with Sloan-Kettering Institute after a stint with...
Pontiac Star Parade (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Victor Borge pursues an elusive tulip through this Scandinavian travelogue, and, once arrived at his Danish castle, settles down to some hilarious monkey business...
Nobel Peace Prizewinning Missionary-Physician Albert Schweitzer, 84, went to Copenhagen to accept a Sonning Prize (the Danish equivalent of a Nobel award and worth about $14,250), plus some $35,625 in other windfall gifts that will be applied to his famed jungle hospital in Gabon, central Africa. That evening, at a state banquet in Copenhagen's Christian-borg Castle, Dr. Schweitzer met another Nobelman, Denmark's aging (74) Atomic Physicist Niels Bohr, for the first time. Seated together, the two talked seriously, reportedly found themselves in complete agreement that nuclear test explosions should be stopped...
...infection, which flared up anew as Israel's Foreign Minister Golda Meir rose to demand "collective moral pressure" by the U.N. to enforce its 1951 decision condemning Egypt's refusal to let ships carrying Israeli goods pass through the Suez Canal. Indignantly, Golda Meir reported that the Danish freighter Inge Toft, which was stopped by the Egyptians last May with a cargo originating in Israel, "is being held to this day at Port Said." The United Arab Republic's Farid Zeineddine promptly asked for the floor and, hardily ignoring the U.N. ruling and the verdict...
...profile, whose typical gesture is a great silent shrug." In Germany, a Volkswagen personnel man remarked with distaste: "By 19, most of them are satisfied little bourgeois." But the most plaintive and perceptive lament came from a parent in Denmark: "I sometimes wonder if our youngsters know they are Danish...