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...returned to Copenhagen before the Nazis overran Denmark in April 1940. At first they did not bother Bohr, despite his part-Jewish ancestry. Then, in 1943, he learned that he was slated for arrest. That same night Bohr, his wife and his son Aage sneaked aboard the fishing boat Sea Star and escaped to Sweden. (He was the kind of man about whom absent-minded professor stories are told, and legend has it that he had kept a bottle of heavy water, then important for atomic research, hidden in his refrigerator; in his hasty departure he left the heavy water...
Nijinsky & James Dean. In London and on the Continent, the only classical male dancer who can match Nureyev's popularity is Denmark's Erik Bruhn. Pale, hollow-cheeked and shaggy-haired, Nureyev radiates a kind of savage excitement that he himself describes as a "mixture of tenderness and brutality." It has prompted comparisons with Nijinsky and even with the late actor James Dean, hero of the beatniks. Unfortunately for the Royal Ballet, Nureyev is like Dean in another respect: he is as complex and difficult an animal offstage as he is on. After giving a superb performance opposite...
Early this year Sweden simultaneously cut its income tax and increased its national sales tax from 4.2% to 6.4%. Denmark has a similar reform in the works. Even the Russians, notes the First National City dourly, recognize the adverse effect of income taxes on incentive, and proclaim their ultimate intention to abolish income taxes entirely...
...give him a roaring welcome. He was there to give Dick Nixon a boost in his campaign for Governor; if there was ever any doubt about Ike's enthusiasm for his Vice President, none remained after he spoke at a Cow Palace banquet. "Several months ago in Denmark," said Ike, "I observed that one of the biggest mistakes of my political career was not working harder for Dick Nixon in 1960. I urge all of you, and I urge all Californians, not to make the same mistake this year. Richard Nixon has served his country well. I have faith...
...joined the A.P.'s Buffalo bureau in 1937 after a reporting stint on the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate and State Times (where he covered the assassination of Huey P. Long). Sent to Europe in 1940, he arrived in Copenhagen just in time to witness the Nazi invasion of Denmark. As a war correspondent, he covered the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942, also served in Greece, the Balkans and Austria. He was recalled to A.P.'s New York headquarters...