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...line for takeoff. "In the old days, I'd fly into a military airfield and they'd clear out everything a day ahead," he observed wryly. But the luster of his four stars still casts a glow. During a recent visit to a technical school in Denmark, S.C., Westmoreland found some of the students dressed in old combat jackets, their name tags still in place. "Where were you?" Westmoreland briskly inquired of each while shaking hands. Back came the replies: "Korea ... Okinawa...
...teacher who had for years observed the effects of shoes on posture. On a trip to South America she confirmed a favorite theory: lower heels mean better carriage. The Brazilian Indians, she decided, owed their erect stance to long years of sinking barefoot heels into soft terrain. Returning to Denmark, she perfected a primitive version of today's shoe and tested it herself on 500-mile hikes...
...British-born plastic surgeon who began flying rescue missions in a second-hand light plane back in 1957. Under the sponsorship of the private, nonprofit African Medical and Research Foundation, the service now consists of eight planes, an international staff of eight physicians (two with pilots' licenses), from Denmark, Germany, France, Canada and Britain, and five non-M.D. pilots...
...like the idea of having a Prime Minister, and thinks that any Danish government could get by with eight instead of the present 20 ministries. What post would he like? Minister for the Abolition of Bureaucracy, of course. Simplistic and nonsensical as his platform sounds, almost 500,000 of Denmark's 3 million voters chose it, making the Progress Party, with 28 of the Folketing's 179 seats, the country's second largest...
Whatever government is chosen, no one expects it to last very long. Denmark, in short, last week came as close to a revolution as that peaceful, cautious nation has been since Hamlet put the sword to Claudius at Elsinore...