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...especially noticeable when compared with the lusty prosperity of the Common Market. The gap will widen if the European Economic Community is enlarged to include Britain, Denmark, Ireland and Norway. It will have a population of 250 million, somewhat larger than either the U.S. or the Soviet Union. Its gross national product will be an estimated $650 billion v. $932 billion for the U.S. and as much as $600 billion for Russia. The Market will be the world's largest steel producer, and it will outstrip even the U.S. in auto production...
...they have been traced back 4,000 years to the Egyptians. They appear in the culture of the Polynesians, the Maoris of New Zealand, the Mayas and the Incas. King George V, Czar Nicholas II and King Frederik IX of Denmark wore them. For years they have adorned the arms and chests of sailors, roustabouts and construction workers. Now, after a decade or two of decline, tattoos are enjoying a renaissance. They have become the vogue of the counterculture...
...words reached the West, one prevalent speculation is that they were brought to Denmark by Victor Louis, a Russian-born journalist (real name: Vitaly Lui) with close ties to the KGB, the Soviet secret police. It was Victor Louis who tried to beat Western publishers into print by offering European firms a version of Svetlana's Twenty Letters to a Friend. Either Louis or other KGB men are known to have placed authentic manuscripts in the West, often to try to convict the authors of anti-Soviet propaganda. British Journalist Louis Herren speculated that any KGB involvement might reflect...
...others: Britain, France, Canada, The Netherlands, Denmark and Norway...
...Denmark's heiress apparent, Princess Margrethe, carefully curbs any tendencies toward royal posturing in her two-year-old son, Prince Frederik. During his afternoon strolls, he likes to slosh in puddles like any other toddler. Even so, passers-by cannot help but note that whoever that kid is in the gutter near the Amalienborg Palace, he sits there as if he owned the place...