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...Danish farmers keep their vital outlets for butter and bacon in Britain while penalizing its much larger but import-dependent industries as little as possible. New Zealand, with its whole economy already weakened by falling wool prices, devalued 19.45%. Ceylon devalued 20%, and at week's end tiny Iceland took the biggest...
...stars are Americans-Lawrence Rhodes of Detroit, who brings to Dead Boy and Time Out of Mind an overwhelming sense of racking passion under superb muscular control, and New Yorker Brunilda Ruiz, an agile, high-leaping prima ballerina. The company's foreign-born dancers, ranging in origin from Iceland to Japan, have been carefully selected for their adaptability to an "American" style. That style, explains Macdonald, is the best in the world for new ballet. "Americans are relatively weak in classical training," he says, "but they make up for it in other ways. They move closer to the floor...
...change was a long time coming. For decades, while the rest of Europe standardized driving on the right, Sweden, like Britain, Ireland and Iceland, clung stubbornly to the left-an arbitrary attitude that dated back to an 18th century royal decree for mail coaches. But despite tradition, Swedes could hardly help noticing that neither their own motoring reflexes nor those of visitors from right-hand countries changed at the border. Foreigners kept getting into dangerous difficulties on Swedish roads, and the travel prone Swedes were getting into too many needless accidents abroad. Besides, driving Swedish cars in Sweden...
Last week Sister Xavier, now an honorary colonel in the U.S. Army, and the girls of Clarke's Coffee House Theater were back on U.S.O. tour, this time a six-weeks-long foray through armed-forces camps in Greenland, Labrador, Newfoundland and Iceland. The troupe is doing folk singing, modern-jazz dancing, sing-alongs, satirical skits and, our reporting indicates, living up to the way we described the girls of three years ago: "Vigorous and venturesome." In picking up that description for the title of Chapter 1 of GI Nun, Sister Xavier carefully added a word...
...Presidents have taken it upon themselves to intervene in foreign crises more than 150 times without consulting Congress or have done so only after the fact. Jefferson did it at Tripoli in 1801, as did Buchanan against Mexican bandits in 1859, Wilson at Vera Cruz in 1914, Roosevelt in Iceland in 1941, Truman in Korea in 1950, Eisenhower in Lebanon in 1958, Kennedy at the Bay of Pigs in 1961, and Johnson in the Dominican Republic two years...