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...fanciful headline about the invention of the sauna by a Finn who discovered that his wife "loved" being locked in a smokehouse and beaten with birch leaves. Lawyer Karen DeCrow, former president of the National Organization for Women, conceded in a letter to Finnair North American General Manager Leif Lundstrom that the airline had intended only to be funny-but added that wife beating was no laughing matter, either in Finland or the U.S. If Finnair did not drop the ad, said DeCrow, "we women will have to start our great vacations with one of your competitors." In a nonplused...
Whatever happened to Leif Rosenberger...
Thompson characterized the smoke-filled Ames Courtroom as "a horrible combination of early Persian and ... Leif Ericson," but his observations on Harvard in general reflected a more virulent fear-and-loathing...
...movie star of the '50s, Burt Lancaster, as the leading trespasser on Government property. His SAC nemesis is Richard Widmark, still energizing his performances with a subtle suggestion of psychopathy. Playing the President's closest advisers are such good, gray actors as Melvyn Douglas, Joseph Gotten and Leif Erickson. It is all rather comforting to see these old companions in adventure from bygone matinees. Director Aldrich, a veteran purveyor of thrills in all the low-caste genres, knows how to work this territory, nipping lightly on the nerve endings in the early going, then settling down...
...crazy, Fell's ideas are no less than fantastic. In his book he argues that Columbus and Leif Erickson were merely the most recent in a long line of ancient adventurers to the New World that includes Celts, Basques, Phoenicians, Libyans, Carthaginians, and Egyptians. Since America B.C. was published Fell has added Arabs and Minoans to his list...