Word: nordics
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...each of the 450 rooms has air conditioning, TV, and imported marble baths. Outside the hotel is a 50-by-90-ft., palm-shaded swimming pool; inside, the hotel has a Bali Room restaurant and nightclub, where everything from walls to waiters is tricked out in Balinese decor; a Nordic Room studded with 25,000 pearl-like shells, a Versailles Room for private banquets, where a fountain can be made to spray champagne instead of water...
...Algom Uranium, another Hirshhorn company, which will top Pronto when it starts producing in 1956 at the rate of 3,000 tons of ore a day from each of its two mines, one at Quirke Lake and the other at Nordic Lake. With ore reserves reckoned by some geologists at 75-100 million tons,* enough for 34 years at the planned rate of production, Algom has contracted to sell five years' output to the government company for $207 million...
...Consolidated Denison, south of Quirke Lake, which has a 6 square-mile claim, and indicated ore reserves comparable to those of Algom's Quirke Lake and Nordic Lake combined. Its contract with the government may well rival Algom...
...published an interesting profile of Germany's new Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano in the June 20 issue . . . The Lorelei was not written by [his forebear] Clemens Brentano, but by Heinrich Heine . . . When the Nazis came to power, they felt they had to "appropriate" it for the Nordic race. They omitted the name of the Jew Heine and just called it "a folksong." Clemens Brentano, however, has one real claim to fame: he was the joint editor of Des Knaben Wunderhorn, one of the most important folksong collections in the history of German literature...
...moviemakers have of course been careful to soften the shock of this dee-double-daring event. The marriage takes place way back in the 1870s and is not shown on the screen. The Indian girl is played by a pretty young actress (Debra Paget) who is obviously of sturdy Nordic stock, and the rest of the picture is so dull that moviegoers may not care what happens to the characters anyway...