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Twelve nations are signatories of the North Atlantic Treaty: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the U.S. Determined to "safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilization of their peoples," they resolved to "unite their efforts for . . . the preservation of peace and security." The treaty runs for 20 years. Its two critical articles...
...University of California's Waldemar Christian Westergaard, 67, authority on Scandinavian history (Denmark and Slesvig, 1848-1864; The First Triple Alliance). Plump, pleasant Professor Westergaard long ago gave up classroom seminars ("hard seats don't mean hard heads"), preferred to teach in his own library, smoking a four-foot-long Danish pipe...
Rumors that Washington Hostess Perle Mesta would be the next U.S. Ambassador to Denmark were getting a cool reception in some Copenhagen circles. "Nowadays in diplomacy," the conservative Berlingske Tidende delicately pointed out, "you do not ask questions about sex, but about qualifications...
Elsinore's rugged Kronborg Castle, setting of Shakespeare's Hamlet, still makes traveling players as welcome as its most famed tenant once did. Since 1937, Denmark has been inviting foreign troupers to re-enact the tragedy right at the scene of the crimes. (Among its title-role guests: Sir Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud.) Next week, at the latest revival, Elsinore's visiting players will have traveled for the first time all the way from...
...Americans, flown to Denmark by the U.S. Air Force, were dispatched by Virginia's Barter Theater on its first international junket. From its base in Abingdon, the Barter is far & away the most active professional repertory company touring the U.S. With a $10,000 annual grant from Virginia, the Barter is also the country's first state-subsidized theater...