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...long been common to reward big contributors with ambassadorships, despite their lack of diplomatic experience. Large donors who made it under Nixon include Kingdon Gould Jr., who gave $22,000 and became ambassador to Luxembourg; Guilford Dudley Jr., $51,000, Denmark; John P. Humes, $43,000, Austria; Vincent De-Roulet, $44,500, Jamaica. A big giver under President Eisenhower, Maxwell H. Gluck, was embarrassed at confirmation hearings for his ambassadorship to Ceylon when he could not name that nation's Prime Minister...
Nonetheless, the prosaic preparations for the summit, foreshadowing the entry of Britain, Ireland and Denmark into the EEC on Jan. 1, accurately reflect the current boredom with the whole idea of a united Europe. Little more than a decade ago, Spanish Philosopher Salvador de Madariaga grandly envisioned the day when "Spaniards will say 'our Chartres,' Italians 'our Copenhagen' and Germans 'our Bruges,' and will step back horror-stricken at the idea of laying murderous hands on it." Then there were dreams and drama; today there are mostly details...
...vote, and now chose the moment of victory as "a good occasion to step down." In his place as Prime Minister, the Social Democratic Party confirmed Krag's personal choice: Anker Henrik Jorgensen, 50, plump and goateed president of the 250,000-member Unskilled Workers' Union, Denmark's largest...
Krag also had shrewdly chosen the path of political discretion. A large turnout of voters (nearly 90% of those eligible) resoundingly approved Krag's Common Market policy by 1,957,959 to 1,135,451, evidently agreeing with him that Denmark had no choice but to follow its best customer, Britain, into the European Economic Community. But Krag's triumph was tempered by the fact that almost half of the no votes came from traditional supporters of his Social Democratic Party. They included many trade unionists who feared that tiny Denmark (pop. 5,000,000) would have...
...only intersectional competition so far this Fall Harvard sailors placed second among 14 schools that competed for the Denmark Trophy on the Thames River at New London on October 7 and 8. The depth of the Harvard team accounted for this fine performance which included third and fifth places in the two divisions of dinghies...