Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supermarkets on the South Shore, was chosen to run for treasurer 48 hours before the Republican State Convention met in Boston on June 25. Until Fernandes' candidacy was announced by Governor John A. Volpe, no other Republican had sought the nomination. Volpe had contacted Fernandes, who was then in Denmark, and asked him if he would accept the nomination, Fernandes cabled back that he would and thus on Saturday, June 25, Joe Fernandes was nominated in absentia...
...daring Dane beat Denmark's state radio monopoly with Europe's first illegal maritime transmitter way back in 1958. He was copied by a handful of Swedes, Norwegians and Dutchmen, but it was left to the bold and buccaneering nation that fathered Sir Francis Drake and Captain Kidd to make pirate radios into big business and a national British pastime to boot. From creaky ferries, minesweepers, freighters and abandoned World War II antiaircraft towers just outside the three-mile limit, impudent stations such as Radio Caroline and Radio London blast out the siren songs of the Beatles...
Just what might happen, and what, if anything, it might signify, nobody really knows. But from Denmark to the Dardanelles, the citizens and comrades of Europe were waiting with fascination as France's Charles de Gaulle flew off for his confrontation with the leaders of Russia...
...Horst Antes, who mashes anatomy into a strudel of bright colors. Actually, in sculpture at least, the laurels were split between two rather conservative choices: Etienne Martin, 53, of France, who was rumored to have received a helping hand from Culture Minister Andre Malraux, and Robert Jacobsen, 54, of Denmark, who makes Model A abstractions in wood, stone and iron...
Pelvis Communism. In pursuit of the tourist's hard currency (9,000,000 foreigners spent $105 million in Yugoslavia last year), the government has abolished visa requirements for 18 nations ranging from Mongolia to such NATO members as Italy, Denmark and Norway. Old hotels are being refurbished to suit Western tastes, and new ones built. Eight new state catering schools offer a four-year course for waiters, cooks and hostelers. Families are being encouraged by the Communist government to indulge in such capitalist practices as investing in restaurants, inns, shoe-repair shops and motels...