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...goal of the international competition was a design for a cultural center for the rugged city of Sydney, Australia. Winning architect was Denmark's Joern Utzon, now 47, who until then had built only a few housing projects. The drawings seemed a fantasy. In construction, they have proved even more exciting-and difficult to realize...
...wasn't there, Charles de Gaulle, also dominated the deliberations of Europe's other trade bloc last week. Meeting in Copenhagen, the seven members of the European Free Trade Association-Britain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria and Portugal-argued over how hotly to pursue their long-range goat of closer trade ties with the Common Market. The big question: Would a major effort only backfire by stirring the French to cause more trouble inside the European Economic Community...
...argued Haekkerup, could lead to a major reshuffle that would produce closer economic and political ties throughout Europe-and EFTA should nudge things along. Reason for the Danish push: though EFTA as a whole runs a chronic trade deficit with the Common Market, the problem is particularly nettlesome for Denmark, which depends on West Germany as a major market for its farm produce. Since the creation of the Common Market, that outlet has shriveled...
...would be like asking a couple in a divorce action to adopt a child." At week's end the delegates settled for a mild expression of readiness to talk whenever the EEC is ready, authorized Haekkerup to press his views with the ambassadors of Common Market countries in Denmark (which he immediately did). That was a timorous step. Still, it showed that EFTA's members, no less than the EEC's "other five," agree that Europe should keep striving to tear down tariff barriers and escape from the trade-poisoning atmosphere of economic nationalism...
Even countries that resisted TV ad vertising-notably Holland, Denmark and Norway-now find themselves debating whether to relax their bans against it. And Britain's venerable government-operated British Broadcasting Corp., where a few years back the very mention of advertising was enough to evoke "cries of horror and alarm," as the Economist once put it, has now begun to reconsider its stand against commercials...