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...book on civil liberties. Last year he quietly resumed the practice of law, specializing in corporate and regulatory matters. In contrast to the Old World elegance of his precourt days at Arnold & Porter (where the firm's partners vetoed his return), Fortas' new Georgetown office sports Danish modern furniture. The man belies the decor: at 60 he seems sadder, his eyes tired and his polished wit dulled. But the shock of his departure from the court has not diminished his deep respect for law. In the first on-the-record interview he has granted since his resignation, Fortas...
...Danish Physicist Theory takes its name from the fact that, in the past 20 to 30 years, an unusually high number of physic?? from Scandinavia-and other Northern European countries-have received Harvard's honorary So. D. According to the theory, you can break down recipients of honoraries into several different categories, and then proceed to make your guesses...
Honorary degrees are always a well-kept secret at Harvard, but the pattern of previous years usually provides a reliable guide for guessing. One denizen of University Hall, knowledgeable in such matters, has developed what he calls "The Danish Physicist Theory" -a formula for generating a pool of names from which recipients of honoraries might be picked...
McGuire lived for a while with a Danish girl he had been seeing for three years since meeting her at a summer language course in Vienna. After they married, he started his quixotic last stand at St. John's College. Now the McGuires have returned to Copenhagen, where he translates technical papers for an electronics firm, polishes his near-perfect Danish, and hopes to become a Danish citizen and get a teaching job. "As a person I am just happy," he says. "We Americans suffer from a tendency to hail what is one hundred percent, but nothing is ever...
Died. Ejnar Mikkelsen, 90, Danish explorer and author; in Copenhagen. Mikkelsen first indulged his zeal for polar exploration at the age of 16 by walking 320 miles from Stockholm to Göteborg in an unsuccessful attempt to join an Arctic balloon flight. Later he captured world attention by leading the 1906 Anglo-American polar expedition, a two-year journey that established the fact that there is no land directly north of Alaska. Between 1909 and 1912, Mikkelsen led a mission in search of the diaries of another brave Dane, Mylius-Erichsen, who had died while exploring the northeast corner...