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...suggestion was the work of one Dr. Svend Nielsen, a Danish pathologist currently employed at the S.P.C.A.'s Angell Memorial Animal Hospital in Boston. After dispatching a total of twelve burly and belligerent New England lobsters, the doctor came to the conclusion that they were capable of pain. With a sharp, clinical eye, he noted that shortly before death "the tail is seen to perform small fitlike movements" and that it curls tightly when the lobster finally cashes in its chips. This did not mean, however, that "our humane friends" could not enjoy lobster meat without "those disturbing thoughts...
...acquainted tour of the NATO countries, General Matthew Ridgway spoke at Elsinore, Denmark, where he won Danish hearts by his closing phrase: Held og lykke ("Good luck to you all"), delivered in faultless Danish. In Oslo, after a meeting with King Haakon, who will be 80 years old in August, 57-year-old Soldier Ridgway reported: "I could spend hours with him. But he was very thin, and I think he should eat more...
...Copenhagen last week, Labor's ex-Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison told Danish Socialists: "You cannot hold recognition from a government simply because you do not like it. I do admit that we have not profited from our recognition gesture . . . but it has not made me change my mind. I still think Mao should have Chiang's seat at the U.N., and when we get back into power, we are going to bring pressure to bear to that end . . ." Conservative London newspapers clucked over his indiscretion, but dissented only to the extent that Red China should not really...
Professor Louis Hjelmslev of the University of Copenhagen, will present a public lecture on the scientific work of Danish philologist Rasmus Christian Rask at 8 p.m. tonight in Allston Burr Hall, Lecture Room...
...began with a Danish survey map made in 1938. His mathematical predictions agree with measurements made by French Explorer Paul-Emile Victor as recently as 1950. Victor's party, however, had to make a 700-mile trek across southern Greenland. Every ten miles they measured ice thickness by detonating a charge of dynamite and timing the echo as it bounced from the rock floor far below. Admittedly more accurate, Victor's seismic soundings were time-consuming and limited. As check-points for Nye's formulas, they take on new importance...