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...Closed four embassies (in Austria, Belgium, Denmark and Switzerland). Losers: assorted political creditors and relatives who had looked forward to an easy, well-paid tour of duty abroad...
...Norway, Denmark and Sweden are cutting deliveries to dealers by 10% to 20%, are talking of formal rationing soon. Swedish industry depends on oil for 44% of its total fuel; production has already been cut back at the Volvo auto factory...
...starting to hurt. French railroads are cutting back schedules, switching from diesels to steam engines. Gasoline deliveries are down 20%, and the booming French Riviera tourist resorts are crying disaster; within a few days of the first gasoline restrictions, hotel occupancy dropped as much as 75% below normal. In Denmark and Spain there is also the glum specter of rationing, with fuel supplies down as much as 25%; Sweden and Switzerland have already banned pleasure driving on weekends...
...kind of quiet effectiveness that would win medals in war, did not wait for the necessary final consent from Egypt's Premier Nasser to assemble the first big contingent of policemen. He set up a U.N. staging area outside Naples, began assembling there 6,000 soldiers from Denmark, Norway, Canada, Colombia. Finland. India and Sweden, for the hop into the Suez area. As they got set. Russia put out a warning that its "volunteers'" would be "allowed" to go into the Middle East un less the British, French and Israeli forces withdrew from Egyptian soil. Red China joined...
Nervous Waiting. Lebanon also pulled out. There were rumors that Norway, Denmark, Belgium and Luxembourg would follow. Still there were 69 nations officially on the Olympic rolls. The English and French had promised to compete. The U.S., with one of its best teams ever, had many of its members in Melbourne, and the rest were on the way. The Russians, who arrived five days late (their ship, the Gruzia, had killed time at sea until it seemed safe to put in at a Western port), loudly boasted of their prowess, gorged themselves on good Australian steaks, and promised to take...