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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...
...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...
...each call when he does-but the U.S. brokers are always on the phone with suggestions and send out as many as eight research reports a month. Many governments restrict trading in U.S. stocks; Britain imposes a 4¼% tax on it, and countries as diverse as Chile and Denmark flatly prohibit it. Imaginative investors, however, usually can slide around the restrictions. The main reason for their interest is that, despite the recent weakness, the U.S. stock market has had a longer and stronger upswing than any other in the world-and foreign investors want to buy a piece...
...Denmark's King Frederik gave her a robust goodbye buss at the airport, and off flew Daisy on the first leg of her seven-week Latin American good-will tour. Stopping for a day in Manhattan, the lass submitted to a press conference at the Danish Consulate, where reporters started asking whom she's been dating lately. "That's a bit of an odd question," she sniffed. There were other nosy queries, but at last they were done and the searing TV lights went off. Gasped Daisy, better known as Princess Margrethe, 25, who will some...