Word: nordics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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IMAGINATION did not agree with Liddy. He grew pale, his throat throbbed, irregularity plagued him. Still, he made no progress. On April 24, at 2:37 p.m., inspiration attacked. While thumbing through a Robert Ludlum novel, it hit him--characters. He swiftly plugged them into the plot: the "very Nordic" Rick Rand, suave financial genius; the "very oriental" T'sa Li, Rick's sex-hungry girlfriend; Mikhail Sarkov, KGB agent posing as multinational chairman Greg Ballinger; T'ang Li, T'sa Li's mammoth brother and Kung Fu expert. Liddy threw in a mafia don and several Company people because...
...robust Midwesterner of sturdy Nordic stock, the tall, silver-haired Carlson, 64, keeps both his personal life and his business private, and he is barely known outside his native Minnesota. He has collected a string of 101 companies in ten groups without ever having sold a share of stock to the public, along the way amassing a fortune estimated at $100 million. Because his companies are private, they are not required to report sales or profits figures. But he has allowed TIME Correspondent Patricia Delaney a closer look at the far-flung activities of the Carlson Companies...
DENMARK. The Nordic countries are the most expensive in Europe. Here too, though, one can find $40 hotel rooms and low-priced lodging in pristine country within two or three hours of the capitals...
...just as deliberately allowing herself to be wrestled into the snow. Near by, a friend calls to his roommate, "Just let me get a picture of you in your wild and crazy cross-country skis." The roommate strikes a pose: "Hey, I'm just a Nordic guy." A visiting sophomore from New Haven says to her date, "We don't have winter sports like these at Yale. We have crime...
Rand's improvement as a jumper has been steady since then, and this year he took second place in the nordic combined event at three carnivals. "I enjoyed jumping because every time I jumped I improved since I was starting from zero," he explains. "When I was a junior. I started thinking about becoming the captain, and I realized that I wanted to. Even when I was in high school, I thought about skiing for Harvard. It means a lot to me. Skiing means...