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Dancers & Wrestlers. The Iron Curtain has also been raised a perceptible inch, and foreign diplomats can move deeper into the countryside. Newsmen are still largely unwelcome, but other delegations are streaming in by the hundreds. They include Greek dancers, Swiss doctors, Italian film makers, British agronomists, Indian economists, Danish exporters, Israeli women, Egyptian wrestlers. Delegations from India, Ceylon, Indonesia and Burma (headed by the Agriculture Minister himself) wandered admiringly through Moscow's huge agricultural exhibition...
...Today, the country has nearly 1,500 orienteering clubs with 189,000 members. All schoolchildren over twelve spend two full days a month practicing the allied arts of map reading, woodsmanship and cross-country running until they become fully oriented. Evangelical Swedes have taught the sport to their Norwegian, Danish and Finnish neighbors, are working hard to spread it to Germany, Britain, Switzerland and Canada. They have little hope for the "car-crazy Americans...
...more space and equipment. There had been no plan to expand in Belgium, but Curtice, in typical fashion, agreed to appropriate the money. The Swiss assembly plant, he learned, needed $3,500,000. Go right ahead, said Curtice, the money will come through. G.M.'s Swedish, French and Danish subsidiaries asked for money, and Curtice promised to work...
...world's zaniest musician, pun-loving, Danish-born Pianist Victor Borge, showed no signs of flagging as he prepared to play his way this week into the second year's run of his one-man Broadway hit show, Comedy in Music. Borge's witty (and programless) keyboard romp has pleasantly parted 230,400 customers from some $775,000 of their money, has outdistanced all long-run records for one-performer Broadway offerings...
...figures are always redeemed by a caricaturist's humor and a painter's technical skill. Also in the show: textiles with Wiinblad faces that look like otherworld creatures peering from flying saucer portholes, and a collection of bright, bold posters (Wiinblad has done them for everybody from Danish music societies to the Marshall Plan). Standout poster: an exhortation to Danes to be musical ("Play Yourself"), showing a sprightly young lady playing a bow across strands of her hair, an almost perfect illustration of a famed T.S. Eliot line ("A woman drew her long black hair out tight...