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...second rehearsal of Princess Ida, Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan's spring production. Tom Fuller '74, an earnest tenor who has starred in four past Gilbert and Sullivan shows, is singing at one end of the room. Standing in front of him, next to a working piano, is Karen Krag '76, the music director and conductor for Princess Ida. Krag is singing along with Fuller, using a pencil as a baton, and swaying from side to side with the rhythm of the music. Her long, thick hair is plaited into two golden brown braids. Dark, almost black, eyebrows give character...
...Danes voted last week in favor of joining the European Common Market, they little guessed that they were also ensuring a change in the country's leadership. Jens Otto Krag, 58, had campaigned long and arduously for a yes vote, and now chose the moment of victory as "a good occasion to step down." In his place as Prime Minister, the Social Democratic Party confirmed Krag's personal choice: Anker Henrik Jorgensen, 50, plump and goateed president of the 250,000-member Unskilled Workers' Union, Denmark's largest...
...Krag kept his resignation a secret until the end of the Prime Minister's traditional state of the nation speech with which he opened the Folketing, or Parliament, last week. He would have stayed on to weather the political storm if the Danes had voted against membership in the Common Market, he said later. But now his sudden announcement caught his countrymen by surprise, though some intimates had detected signs of disenchantment in recent months. Krag, who is married to pretty Actress Helle Virkner, is essentially an intellectual and introvert, and he may have grown weary of the splits...
...Krag also had shrewdly chosen the path of political discretion. A large turnout of voters (nearly 90% of those eligible) resoundingly approved Krag's Common Market policy by 1,957,959 to 1,135,451, evidently agreeing with him that Denmark had no choice but to follow its best customer, Britain, into the European Economic Community. But Krag's triumph was tempered by the fact that almost half of the no votes came from traditional supporters of his Social Democratic Party. They included many trade unionists who feared that tiny Denmark (pop. 5,000,000) would have...
Despite Norway's decision, the magnetism exerted by the EEC remains strong. Some future Norwegian government may bid for membership again. Much depends on Denmark's referendum this week. Danish Premier Krag was prepared for any eventuality. On the day following the EEC vote, Krag must deliver the annual state-of-the-nation speech. This year Krag has prepared two speeches, one assuming Danish rejection of the EEC, the other in case his countrymen vote yes to Europe...