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Gibson expects John Chaffee to sweep the ten-mile cross country race this weekend. As evidence for his optimism, he points to Chaffee's victory in the Lebanon Valley Nordic Meet...
Fielding is more at home with caricature, in which he at times brilliantly conveys what he calls the "innocent malevolence of the Nordic mind." In prison, Ruprecht's brother Alfried is tortured with exquisite science. His torturers, wearing rubber gloves, use surgical instruments to make delicate incisions about his body, taking care not to injure his face. "The cell," Alfried marvels, "was pervaded by a sense of conviction similar to that which fills a hospital theater during a prolonged and difficult operation." But he also notices with dismay that the chief torturer always has cuts on his face from...
Later, races were defined according to "types." There were the blond Nordic type, the dark Spanish type, the Semitic, Negro, and Mongoloid type. But individuals who differed markedly from the type--dark-haired Scandinavians, for instance--could not adequately be classed under this system, and the type system was eventually rejected...
Raking the Ranks. Behind all this Nordic furor stood two stubborn men, stiffened by an antagonism as ridiculous as it was real. One was Franz-Josef Strauss, 47, West Germany's bull-bodied, bull-tempered Minister of Defense, who for all his bulk has a skin thin enough to invite puncturing. The other was Der Spiegel's frail, blond Publisher Rudolf Augstein, 39, who has seldom missed a chance to play the matador to Defense Minister Strauss's bull...