Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pastor of two country churches in Denmark's North Sea province of West Jutland, the Rev. Eilif Krogager, 56, has worked for 31 years to set the feet of his parishioners firmly on the road to heaven. Unlike other clerics, Krogager can also send his flock skyward by jet: he runs a tourist agency that is the fastest growing in all of Scandinavia. His Tjaereborg Travels this year will do a $30 million business booking trips for 170,000 people, including 10,000 leaving this week for Western and Southern Europe and North Africa. Through ten subsidiary companies, Tjaereborg...
...progenitor. Already Pompidou is le général's undisputed domestic-policy manager, and the only man in his Cabinet that De Gaulle calls by his first name. Though the burly, bushy-browed professor turned banker turned politician had made visits to Japan, India and Denmark for the Fifth Republic, London was actually his major diplomatic debut...
With sales of its smooth light Pilsner beer expanding nicely, Denmark's Carlsberg Brewery this summer is pushing completion of a 12,000-ton-capacity barley silo at its plant in the Copenhagen suburb of Valby. Nobody keeps a more interested eye on the project than Carlsberg's competitor, United Breweries, which produces Tuborg. But the watchful eye is not at all due to envy. On the contrary: Tuborg is paying half of the silo's cost and hopes that the facility pays...
...Denmark, which wags have described as a constitutional monarchy in which the legislative power rests with the Parliament and the executive power with the breweries, the government goes along with the split. It ought to. Danish beer is taxed at home more heavily than any other beer in Europe, and last year, before the profits were divided, the government took its own share of $90 million. Above all, the friendly competition has helped Carlsberg and Tuborg build up the exports that the country vitally needs...
Perhaps through overconfidence, Volpe was lax in his next campaign and he lost in 1962 to Democrat Endicott Peabody '42. (Denmark always seems to be involved in Republican fortunes. Volpe made a trip to Denmark during this campaign, and many observers feel that if he had spent the time campaigning in Massachusetts he would have been reelected...