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...Says Danish-born Craftsman Tage Frid, 67, of Foster, R.I.: "Furniture building should be very clear, very straightforward. A chair should say, 'Come and sit here,' and it should fit you in any position you want to sit." Thomas Moser, 47, a onetime college professor who runs a furniture workshop in a former Grange hall in New Gloucester, shuns ornament - the joints in his furniture are the only decorative elements. Moser works mostly in red-hued cherry. He says, "It's stable and tools well. You can sand it to a beautiful polish." Moser never uses stains...
...half and two-thirds of the Royal Navy's operational warships are now in the task force, leaving a large gap in North Atlantic defenses. Normally, the British are responsible for 70% of NATO'S antisubmarine defenses in the eastern Atlantic zone, particularly between Iceland, Greenland and the Danish Faeroe Islands. The U.S. Navy has now taken over those responsibilities, leading U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Thomas Hayward to worry: "We are pushing the Navy as hard as you can push it in peacetime." Argentina was also being increasingly hard-pressed by the war and was searching world markets...
...predicted upturn of the economy, about all that U.S. farmers can do is pray for plagues and bad weather overseas. Midwest cattle producers have no grudge against their counterparts in Denmark, but a recent outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease there caused Japan to suspend $215 million worth of Danish meat imports. This could mean some $100 million in unexpected sales for American cattlemen. Says Ronald Knutson, an economist at Texas A&M: "If there is a major crop failure some place in the world, we'll look back on this as a good year." American farmers...
...Harvard Classics basketball team hopes to win its next away games it had better get used to raucous cheers like that from the home team's partisans. The hollers which will seem nonsensical to the hoopsters from Harvard will ring quite coherently in any Danish arena...
...accused, a tall, impeccably tailored man with ramrod-straight posture and austere mien, is a member of the Danish branch of an old and distinguished German family. Among his ancestors: Conductor Hans von Bülow, husband of Franz Liszt's daughter. Sent to England during World War II, Von Bülow studied law at Cambridge. His reputation as a bright barrister attracted Oil Billionaire J. Paul Getty, who made him a chief aide. Getty called him "an extra right arm" and said he had "a rapier-quick mind and a penchant for hard work...