Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Norbert T. ("Nobby") Tiemann, 41, a small-town bank president, became the Republican nominee for Governor of Nebraska with an impressive primary triumph over Val Peterson, 62, a former Governor who subsequently served as federal Civil Defense Administrator and Ambassador to Denmark. Tiemann, a political nobody six months ago, traveled 65,000 miles in a vigorous campaign that brought him face to face with 100,000 Nebraskans, and gives him an early edge in the November election. He faces another up-and-comer, Lieutenant Governor Philip C. Sorensen, 32, younger brother of Theodore, John F. Kennedy's longtime aide...
Montague-Smith traces the line through Harold's daughter Gytha, who after the fateful day at Senlac Hill wandered to Denmark, where she met and married Volodymyr Monomakh, Grand Prince of Kiev. The line then meanders through many monarchies-Hungarian, Aragonese, French-and finally back to Britain at the time of Edward II, whose brutal murder in 1327 provided a gory conclusion to Christopher Marlowe's biographical play. To Britons of Saxon descent who may still harbor resentment over the Norman Conquest, the fact that their Queen shares brave Harold Godwinson's blood can only come...
...with Europe has exceeded that with all the Commonwealth put together. Getting Britain's six partners in the European Free Trade Association into the Common Market no longer seems as pressing a problem either. Austria has been negotiating with Brussels for a year on its own; Norway and Denmark are sure to follow Britain in any event...
...Finns are just as tough as the Swedes about even slightly tipsy motor-vehicle operators. Violations cannot be fixed; Member of Parliament, clerk, street sweeper, all live in the same terror of flunking the blood-alcohol test and being clapped into jail. Time and again, when we lived in Denmark, friends with as few as two schnapps or highballs under their belts telephoned the police-who dispatched a courteous cop, free of charge, to drive them home...
Five countries--Denmark, Finland, Norway, West Germany, and New Zealand--have adopted the Swedish system, Britain is now considering adopting it. Even in Communist countries, there are "proconsuls" to handle personal grievances against the government...