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...Hill last week, as Congress considered retaliation against two foreign companies that illicitly sold to the Soviet Union important high-tech equipment used in building submarines and aircraft carriers. The targets looming in the congressional periscope: Toshiba Machine, which is 50.1% owned by the Japanese conglomerate Toshiba Corp., and Kongsberg Vapenfabrikk, a state-owned computer and weaponmaker in Norway. Several lawmakers even suggested that Toshiba and Kongsberg be barred from selling products in the American market. "I'm talking about retribution," said Republican Senator Jake Garn of Utah...
Nobody was more surprised than Kongsgaard himself. Although born in Kongsberg, Norway, birthplace of a long list of ski-jumping greats (including the Ruud brothers, Birger, Sigmund and Asbjörn), the 6-ft.-11 Norwegian does not take his skiing with professional seriousness. At 26, he is more anxious about getting good engineering marks at the University of Idaho, where he is an exchange student. Says Sverre, shrugging matter-of-factly: "Some things we must do; I have to study. Skiing is a diversion...
College skiers who tire of the blue books can get away from it all at the newly established Norwegian Ski School for Americans at Kongsberg, Norway, it was announced last night...
...Kongsberg is an old, dignified town located about 80 miles from Oslo. The Ski School Committee will arrange sight-seeing tours, and the ski students will have an opportunity to attend the various Norwegian winter sports features...
Reservations for the course should be airmailed to Birger Rund, Kongsberg, Norway, not later than December 19. Applicants may write for additional information to Thor Gabrielson, 18 Kimball Street, Chicago...