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COME LIVE WITH ME. A comedy by Lee Minoff and Stanley Price stars Jack Car ter as a divorced American screenwriter in London. The farcical entanglements start when a Danish au pair girl moves in and his ex-wife visits. Westport...
...Danish Import. Yet Papandreou was still an orator without peer in the land of Demosthenes. And in choosing to attack the monarchy he had a vital issue, for the Greeks have often resented, and sometimes even exiled, a royal family that was originally (in 1863) imported from Denmark...
...Taking up an offer from the Gillette Safety Razor Co.'s German branch, Vesper agreed to enter the Ratzeburg Regatta and race once again against the powerful West German crew. Last week, on a windless lake close to the little (pop. 12,123) town of Ratzeburg near the Danish frontier, Karl Adam's husky boys got off with a fast-chopping 50 strokes a minute, built up a one-half-length lead before slowing the pace to 41 strokes. At times, the Vespers pumped away at more than 40 strokes, but never succeeded in closing the distance. Ratzeburg...
...Pommies,"* meaning Britons. But it has been the arrival of 1,000,000 Continental Europeans in two decades that has most profoundly influenced the way of life Down Under. Once stolid menus now offer Bratwurst and steak Bordelaise, Australian football stars have names like Ditterich and Silvagni, and Danish modern furniture comes all the way from Melbourne or Sydney. This week Immigration Minister Hubert Opperman returned from a six-week tour of Europe, jubilant at having signed new immigration treaties with Malta, as well as labor-short West Germany and The Netherlands...
Lady Allen got the idea on a 1945 visit to Copenhagen, where a Danish landscape architect had created an immensely popular playground by stocking a lot with building materials. It looked like a junkyard. Back home, she organized committees to take over old bomb sites and equip them in the same way. The kids thought that they were the best thing since ice cream. There are now 28 adventure playgrounds in England, and dozens more in Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland...