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...bulldozers grumbled back and forth, cranes hoisted away slabs of concrete, their steel rods bent crazily and stuck with bits of uniforms. The Marines were aided in their grim task not only by Navy Seabees from ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet off the Lebanese coast, but by Italian, Norwegian and Lebanese rescuers, most of them volunteers. The searchers clambered over the ruins with picks and shovels, but just as often they would fall to their knees and scoop out debris with their hands. Orders, screamed out in any of several languages, often went unheard. At night the wreckage looked...
People with no desire to hang around may prefer chairs designed to take pressure off the back. Among the hottest sellers are Balans chairs, Norwegian imports that retail for $180 to $550. They are actually stools with a seat and a padded knee rest sloped in a way that forces the user to have proper posture. One Chicago distributor expects to sell 15,000 of the chairs this year, up from less than 1,000 in 1979. Another popular item, particularly favored by truck drivers and police officers, is the Sacro-Ease, a plastic or velour car seat that provides...
...death surprised those who knew him. Jackson was fit and industrious, and never smoked. He had no history of heart trouble, and lived prudently. The habit of prudence was bred by his parents, Norwegian immigrants. Nicknamed Scoop after a comic-strip character who appeared in the Everett Herald (which he delivered for years), Jackson practiced frankness young: in the third grade, asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, he admitted he wanted Warren G.Harding...
Throughout the campaign, Denis has been a dutiful fixture at Maggie's appearances, nodding and applauding at the right moments, croaking, "Hear, hear," like a proud bullfrog each time she makes a point. A diligent Norwegian reporter counted 40 "Hear, hears" during a single Thatcher speech a few weeks ago in Yorkshire. Denis has a penchant for the blunt phrase. He routinely refers to trade unionists as "Luddites" and to antinuclear protesters as "Commies." As he once put it, "I don't pretend that I'm anything but an honest-to-God right-winger." After...
...attractive, boyish-looking man, with a beaked nose, a nasal-baritone voice, and graying, sandy hair. He has an easy, likable manner and a quick wit he often turns on himself. His self-deprecation springs from his country roots in Minnesota. His father was a Methodist minister of Norwegian background who spoke with both a strong accent and a stutter. To augment his $1,800-a-year church salary, he sold corn and cabbages out of his garden. His mother Claribel helped out by giving piano lessons. Fritz, as he was called, had his own chores, like gathering corncobs...