Word: danish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stirred little emotion among the Russian people. But shock and indignation have mounted in Communist parties abroad, and the task of soothing the foreign comrades left Russia's new B. & K. team red-eyed with fatigue. Into Moscow swept platoon after platoon of insistent commissars-French, Italian, Austrian, Danish, Indian, Mongolian-all clamoring for explanations. Why had Khrushchev been ousted? How could the new regime justify its coup d'état? What were Moscow's new policies-particularly vis-à-vis Red China? And, ahem! was Nikita all right? "In fact," said one old Moscow hand...
...boat lost an early race, but won in the second-chance "repechage" heat to get into the final. Yesterday the team finished just two seconds back of the winning Danish crew. The Danes posted a time of 6:59.30; Great Britain was second in 7:00.47, and the U.S. third in 7:01.37. Californian Dick Lyon, and Ted Mittet and Ted Nash of Seattle rowed with Picard on the U.S. crew...
...Danish voters, by contrast, moved right, giving four new seats to the Conservatives. The ruling Social Democrats won 76 seats in Parliament, the same total they won in 1960. However, their coalition partners, the Radical Liberals, dropped one of their eleven seats, thus wiping out the government's precarious majority and forcing Premier Jens Otto Krag to form a minority administration...
Escape with a Dane. The more avant-garde is $7,700,000 St. Catherine's College at Oxford, which accepted its first students two years ago although it is still being completed. The college was designed by Danish Architect Arne Jacobsen, 62, creator of Copenhagen's glass-packaged Royal Hotel, who believes that "economy plus function equals style." St. Catherine's master, Historian Alan Bullock, wanted someone who would not be affected by Oxford's "almost suffocating feeling of being unable to escape from the past." Jacobsen's escape could hardly be more complete...
...There is no "German representative" involved in the management of IBM in Denmark [Aug. 21]. The operations of IBM Denmark are the responsibility of a Danish-born general manager who, with general managers for IBM in Finland, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom, reports to an area executive in London. J. T. CARTY Director of Communications IBM World Trade Corp. New York City...