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Died. Ole Singstad, 87, master tunnel builder; in Manhattan. Beginning with New York's Holland Tunnel in 1927, the Norwegian-born Singstad designed and built dozens of underwater highways, including New York's Lincoln and Brooklyn Battery tunnels, and the 1¾-mile Baltimore Harbor Tunnel. What made them all possible was his ingenious ventilation system, which sucks out deadly exhaust fumes with fans so efficiently that it has become standard the world over...
Died. Sonja Henie, 57, Norwegian-born queen of the ice revues in the 1930s and '40s; of leukemia; in an ambulance plane between Paris and Oslo. The chubby, bedimpled daughter of a prosperous Oslo fur wholesaler, Sonja captured Norway's figure skating championship by the time she was ten. In 1927 she won the first of her ten consecutive world titles and the following year earned the first of three successive Olympic crowns. As astute in business as she was graceful on skates, she turned professional in 1936, made eleven movies (One in a Million, Thin...
...jaunt from coast to coast and back again. He met with L.B.J. in the White House, flew on to Florida, Texas and California, to Wisconsin's Scandinavian dairylands, to Chicago, and finally to Manhattan. There, he lunched with Nelson and Happy Rockefeller and the Governor's Norwegian-born daughter-in-law, Anne-Marie, in the Governor's apartment overlooking Central Park. He took in the big town's other sights and, feeling the salt rising in his veins, even headed into New York harbor to inspect the Coast Guard's ocean rescue facilities on Governors...
...Born. To Steven Clark Rockefeller, 27, divinity student son of New York's Governor; and Anne-Marie Rasmussen Rockefeller, 25, Norwegian-born former housemaid in the Rockefeller home: their second child, first daughter; in Manhattan...
Simple Works. Timex was born after World War II, when U.S. Time's taciturn, Norwegian-born President and Chairman Joakim M. Lehmkuhl, 67, ordered his engineers to design a watch so simple that it could be geared for automatic production. The watch they produced is so uncomplicated that its works are mounted between two plates instead of a network of five as on other models, and have only four screws v. 31 in other watches. Timex's simplicity gives it amazing shockproof qualities, but most jewelers agree that, with its metal bearings, Timex will not keep time...