Word: denmarks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jacob, of West Dover, Vt., turns out his Alpine Village models at a starting price of about $3,000. Admitting that the "Alpine" title is a misnomer, Jacob says: "I went to Switzerland and I didn't see any A-frames ; then I went to Norway and Denmark and saw lots of them. When I asked where they got the idea, they told me 'from the U.S.' " Unabashed, Jacob continues to push his Swiss model, with chalet-type gingerbread on the yodeling porch (a tiny balcony that forms the crossbar of the A), as well...
Carl-Henning Pedersen is the best painter in Denmark-and for art dealers the most frustrating. He has about 1,000 canvases stashed away in the storerooms of a Copenhagen brewery, and he turns as frosty as a glass of Carlsberg when anyone suggests that he might sell one. He recently refused a substantial check for 15 paintings because he said it would raise his standard of living, so he simply gave the paintings away. He is indifferent to what the critics say, and dealers, who try to see him at his lonely house on the west coast of Jutland...
...Moscow demanded joint military talks to meet the alleged threat of West German "aggression." As Tass reported the Siberian table talk, Khrushchev told the Finnish leader that, "before it is too late," the frontier of Finland and the Soviet Union must be fortified against the NATO partners West Germany, Denmark and Norway. "All-round cooperation between our two countries." continued Khrushchev, "requires firm confidence that Finland will abide tomorrow, as it does today, by its chosen foreign policy line"-strict neutrality based on friendship with Russia...
Probably the larger purpose of Khrushchev's threat was to intimidate Finland's Scandinavian neighbors, neutral Sweden and NATO allies Denmark and Norway. So far, the threat has failed, as was demonstrated at another luncheon meeting last week by Norwegian Foreign Minister Halvard M. Lange, who traveled to Moscow for talks. In a speech, Lange was publicly berated by Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan for Norway's NATO membership. Angrily, Lange rose to reply, saying in effect that Norway had no intention of withdrawing from NATO: "This is a political reality. The last war taught us that...
Look Up and Live (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). First of a two-part documentary about how the people of Denmark saved almost all of the 8,000 Danish Jews from Nazi persecution in World...