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Swedish seaside resort of Saltsjoebaden, near Stockholm, as 79 delegates from seven nations-Britain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria and Portugal-gathered to put the finishing touches to their own free-trade association, known familiarly as the "Outer Seven" (though some of its members think the name invidious). Recognizing, in the words of one British official, that "we simply cannot let the Common Market Six build up walls we may never be able to scale," the Outer Seven have decided to get their commerce into step with the Common Market. Thus their draft plan envisions a tariff reduction...
...unifying Europe. Unlike the Common Market, the Outer Seven arrangement has no supranational institutions and leaves each nation to negotiate tariffs with nonmember nations as it sees fit. This is much to Britain's liking, but it has paid heavily to get it-chiefly in agricultural concessions to Denmark...
...know why, but they import all their strippers. Italian girls are only interested in the movies. It's like Hollywood 15 years ago; every girl is a starlet. I didn't meet one who didn't claim to have been in Ben Hur." ¶Denmark-"The emphasis is on vaudeville acts. One of the best had a man in an upper berth peering at a girl in a lower as she got ready for bed. They have lots of creative imagination over there. Danish girls are a cross between the English and French, but they...
...make with both the words and the brushes. "If Jack Kerouac is the prose writer of the Beat Generation, I am its visual chronicler," boasts Morris. As a painter, Los Angeles-born Morris once rode a motor scooter from Barcelona ("I cleaned Miro's studio") to Denmark (where he painted canvases with his bare feet), has kept a partial record of 25 exhibitions and eight museums in which his work hangs. As a poet, Morris has the word from Ezra Pound ("In 50 years you will be a poet") and William Carlos Williams ("The total impression is of great...
...behind the idea was none other than President Charles de Gaulle himself. Other NATO powers-notably Norway, Denmark and Britain-are still firmly opposed to Spanish membership. Regarding Franco's forces as ill-equipped, intended primarily for internal security and not much good anyway, they think that Spain's geographical usefulness is already taken care of by U.S. bases in Spain...