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Volunteering for Progress. They will find many kindred spirits already at work. Norway, which claims that it was the first to copy President Kennedy's Peace Corps idea, has teams in Uganda. Similar programs have been initiated by Canada, Australia, Denmark, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland. The French Volontaires du Progres has dispatched 95 farmers, carpenters, masons and doctors to France's former African colonies, and within a year expects to have 400 in action...
...Washington aides thought it might be significant. Two other possibilities: John Blatnik, 53, an 18-year Congressman from Minnesota's iron-range area, who is backed by Senator Eugene McCarthy and officials of the United Steelworkers Union; Mrs. Eugenie Anderson, the nation's first woman ambassador (Denmark) and now Minister to Bulgaria...
...other two: Katharine White in Denmark and Margaret Joy Tibbetts in Norway...
...prestige. "I hope some of the foreign visitors will remember us after the Olympics," says Company President Shoji Hattori, 64, second son of the late founder. To refresh their memories, Hattori salesmen are stepping up their export drive, in the past year have broken the Swiss monopoly in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, where Seiko watches now sell at the rate of 9,000 a month. Another target is the U.S. market, which Hattori has heretofore tapped largely by supplying movements to Benrus. Despite forbidding U.S. tariffs, Hattori is beginning a U.S. sales campaign for Seiko, retailing 17-jewel wristwatches...
Weddings are, so to speak, expensive propositions. In Athens, Finance Minister Constantine Mitsotakis announced that the marriage of Greece's King Constantine, 24, to Denmark's Princess Anne-Marie, 18, cost the treasury $303,000, including $183,300 spent on wedding gifts. However, an issue of 2,000,000 commemorative 30-drachma pieces will net a profit of $1,063,000, leaving the wily Greeks with $760,000 to play around with, or possibly use as a dowry for Crown Princess Irene...