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...beauty of mørketiden soon pales. Especially in the more isolated parts of the north, says Tromsø Sound County Sheriff Knut Kruse, "people seem to be different during winter. They become edgy, complaining, sour. They long for the light, talk about the darkness, condemn it. They display much more of a 'couldn't care less' attitude." In Tromsø, reports Psychiatrist Harald Reppesgaard of Asgard Mental Hospital, "the whole city slows down. People's concentration and work capacity are reduced, and they are always tired." Adds R. Kaare Rodahl, an Oslo physiologist...
...security is often difficult to define. The three Japanese last week were checked through a magnetometer at Rome's airport while their uninspected bags were being stowed. Rome Airport Police Chief Pietro Guli insists that baggage is the responsibility of individual airlines. Meanwhile International Air Transport Association Director Knut Hammarskjold calls airport security everywhere "inadequate...
...Cuba has already earned about $100,000 in landing fees and other charges imposed on the hapless U.S. airlines. Ironically, 2,500 Americans have visited Cuba unintentionally since the end of 1967-nearly four times the number officially permitted to go there since Castro overthrew Batista in 1959. Knut Hammarskjold, director-general of the International Air Transport Association and a nephew of the late U.N. Secretary-General, visited Havana last week but kept mum about what progress he had made...
...annual meeting in Cannes have proved to be poor tourists. Ignoring the pleasures of the Riviera, the IATA people have for two weeks been meeting morning, noon and night behind closed doors. Why the urgency? "This is the most important traffic conference in history," says IATA Director General Knut Hammarskjold, nephew of the U.N.'s late Dag. "It takes place at the beginning of the era of real mass international air travel...
...first casualty is dignity; the sec ond, humanity; the last, life itself. In 1890, out of the remembered pangs of his own despairing struggle with dep rivation, Norwegian Nobel Prizewin ner Knut Hamsun wrote an acrid au tobiographical novel. Two generations later, Scandinavia's moviemakers have finally caught up with Hunger-and surpassed...