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...visible story is slow and simple. A lesbian named Ester, her younger sister Anna, and Anna's young son Johan are passing by train through a country whose inhabitants speak a foreign tongue, devised by Bergman to subvert communication. When Ester falls ill, they stop at a hotel. An incestuous relationship between the women has ended in bitterness, and Anna-after a few days of taunting her sister with a series of heterosexual escapades-takes the boy and goes away, leaving her to die alone...
Though the Lakonia was 33 years old, she was on her first voyage under the Greek flag. As the Dutch liner Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, she had for years plied the route from Holland to the Netherlands East Indies, during World War II had served as a British troop ship. Unlike newer ships, her bulkheads below deck were wood-paneled and her wiring system was oldfashioned; three times, under the Dutch, the liner was hit with small fires that were easily brought under control. A year ago, with passenger traffic proving unprofitable, the Dutch owners sold the vessel to the Greek...
...Johan T. Ruud, professor of Marine Biology and president of the University of Oslo, Norway, will lecture tonight on "Antarctic Whaling: Studies in Biology and Population Dynamics." He will speak at the 2 Divinity Ave. auditorium...
Relative Quiet. The man who started the noisy affair is 46-year-old Town Clerk Johan ("I'm the worst municipal employee in Holland") Scholtes. Inspired by local band contests, Scholtes decided in 1948 to organize bandsmen on an international scale. He sat down with an atlas, and over the next three years fired off letters all over the world announcing the first international music concours. Seventy-five bands showed up for the 1951 competition. When the second contest rolled around four years later, the municipality asked everyone in town to paint his house front and set out flowers...
Born. To Princess Astrid, 30, comely daughter of Norway's King Olav V, and her commoner husband Johan Martin Ferner, 35, a prosperous Oslo clothier: their first child, a daughter; in Oslo...