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Like many of her contemporaries, Thurman prepared for the task with a concentration that amounted to fanaticism. She learned Danish and followed the tracks of Baroness Karen Blixen, who wrote under the name Isak Dinesen, through Europe, Africa and the U.S. In the Dinesen family's country house, she was allowed to stay the night: "Can you imagine what it was like, lying in bed with the scent of roses and the ticking of clocks in every room, and downstairs were all those papers and letters locked away...
Counterespionage agents have turned up more compelling evidence of the KGB role in the Soviet peace offensive. For several years, Danish intelligence monitored numerous secret meetings between Arne Petersen, a Danish peace activist and writer, and three KGB agents. According to the Danish Ministry of Justice, the KGB promised to help finance advertisements officially sponsored by Petersen and signed by prominent Danish artists who wanted Scandinavia to be declared a nuclear-free zone. In November 1981, Norway expelled a suspected KGB agent who had offered bribes to Norwegians to get them to write letters to newspapers denouncing the deployment...
...Cabinet more Early American in look and feel than Danish modern, Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis, 51, was a polished piece of work. An able and politically adroit administrator, Lewis scored points for his decisive handling of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization strike a year and a half ago and his successful push for the federal gasoline-tax bill passed by Congress last month. But when Lewis outgrew his job, no other seemed soon in the offing. Admitted one top White House staffer: "He's felt underused...
Guiding City Ballet's future needs a kind of heroism, the stoic, clear-headed kind. Born in Copenhagen and trained at the Royal Danish Ballet School, Martins began dancing with City Ballet in 1967, after Balanchine spotted him as a good partner for Suzanne Farrell. His training for his new job began in 1977 as a byproduct of learning how to create dance. Balanchine guided him closely, even assigning him music. "I consider myself fortunate to have him there, tough as it was at times," says Martins. "People say to me, 'Do things your...
Prey's darker side should not come as too much of a surprise. He confesses an avid interest in spiritualism ("but not in seances") and has a huge library of books on the occult. He bought a summer house on an island off the Danish coast as a refuge for himself, his wife Barbara and their three children, just in case Nostradamus' prediction of a world war comes true. The bleak side of the Teutonic soul occasionally stares out uneasily from behind the affable visage. But it is quickly dispelled with the German equivalent of a verbal shrug...