Word: haakon
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...Rhode Island's Camp Endicott, Jim ("Iron Mike") Rafferty ended a perfect, ten-race season (including three wins over Sweden's Gunder Hagg) by winning the three-quarter-mile special. He watched bespectacled Haakon Lidman jack up Sweden's sagging track reputation by lowering the 15.8 world record for the 110-meter high hurdles by 1.4 seconds...
...Rights. In Largs, Scotland, Norway's King Haakon VII, in a traditional ceremony, became an honorary citizen of the town, while an inquisitive black-&-white cat, exercising its traditional right, sat and looked...
...Norway, liberation was liberation, and the reaction was prompt. King Haakon and Prime Minister Johan Ny-gaardsvold in London broadcast an order to their people to cooperate with their Soviet allies, recalled that Norway and Russia had signed an occupation agreement five months ago (Norwegians will take over in their territory "as soon as the military situation permits"). To Moscow they radioed "warmest greetings...
...tory belonged to the U.S. radio. The U.S. slept on, but the radio worked as if it had the biggest audience in history. First, from London, came the rolling, authoritative voice of General Eisenhower, reading his proclamation to the people of Western Europe; then Norway's King Haakon and Belgian Premier Hubert Pierlot...
...these demands, King Haakon's Government gave an unqualified...