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Deepening Division. What worried Wilson concerns political leaders and businessmen throughout Europe: the deepening division between the Outer Seven (Britain, Sweden, Norway,Denmark, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland) and the Inner Six (France, West Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, The Netherlands). On Jan. 1, 1967, the European Free Trade Association's final internal tariff reductions go into effect, to be followed six months afterward by those of the Common Market, and the worry is that trade patterns will become so set within the blocs that attempts to join them will be increasingly fruitless...
...since they put up Miss Liberty in the harbor had a woman charmed New York City with so few words. Protectively accompanied by diplomats and her lady in waiting, Denmark's tall (5 ft. 8 in.) Princess Benedikte, 21, whirled through a hectic six-day goodwill visit -her first trip to the U.S. At a ball celebrating Danish Week, she danced a quiet fox trot with her honor guard of four West Point cadets, and looked unflustered when she turned out to be taller than her official escort, Carl Michaelsen, president of the Danish American Society, Inc. Through...
...tobacco company uses taxation to help discourage the spread of smoking. Taxes already account for 53? of the 65? that Swedes pay for 20 cigarettes, and Sweden will boost the levy another 8? in July. At 73? a pack (83% of that in taxes), Sweden will still rank below Denmark, where a 90% tax makes a pack of 20 cost 88?, the world's highest price for cigarettes. Swedish officials predict from experience that the boost will bring only a brief and shallow slump in sales...
...there is no viable theological objection to women in holy orders," and it is an argument that is slowly but surely taking force in Christianity. More than 70 U.S. Protestant churches accept women clerics; within the past decade, women have been ordained ministers in the Lutheran state churches of Denmark and Sweden and in a dozen Reformed and Evangelical churches of France, Germany and Eastern Europe...
Over the past seven years, Petula has sold 10 million records in Europe, in the past four months, 1,700,000 in the U.S. Various of her songs at one time or another have popped to the top of the hit parade in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Rumania and Switzerland. At her home base, Paris, where the tousled blonde is possessively known as "La Petulante Petula," she has collected the Grand Prix du Disque (just like Edith Piaf and Yves Montand before her), and earlier this year got the Bravos du Music Hall, France's annual award...