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Similar surveys have been conducted by a Norwegian Computing Center, a Swedish Insurance Company, and a Sun Francisco bank. In each, a higher percentage than at Harvard indicates eyestrain, neck strain and back strain...
...rusted tank trap. Raw sewage oozes up to create a black slick on the muddy rain water that covers the street. The major exception to the aura of neglect is a small corner of Shatila that is under the care of a United Nations relief agency. Elsewhere, Norwegian and Austrian relief workers have supplied materials to residents for rebuilding their homes and opened a clinic and a kindergarten on the site of similar facilities formerly operated by one of the more militant Palestine Liberation Organization groups...
German, Mexican, Polish and Norwegian sidewinders proliferated in the pros in the 1960s and '70s until Americans got the knack. In 1966 Cypriot Garo Yepremian's brother wrote to tell him about the land of milk and honey, and the soccer-style pioneer, Hungarian Pete Gogolak. Garo, a humble tiemaker, left home immediately to be a famous tie breaker. "The next thing I knew, I was a Detroit Lion," recalls Yepremian, who would serve four N.F.L. teams. "The first game I ever saw was in Baltimore against the Colts. I kicked off." Before the game, Yepremian...
After dining with the Soviet leader, Norwegian Actress Liv Ullmann gushed that "Brezhnev looks a little vain, but I feel an immediate liking for him when he takes my hand and tells me that he loved The Emigrants [her 1972 film]." Brandt's wife Rut was also taken by his gallantry. On his first state visit to West Germany, in 1973, Brezhnev kissed her hand and said, "You are the first person I am going to invite to Moscow." Cozying up beside her on a sofa, he promised that "all Moscow will lie at your feet," as a gaggle...
Myrdal's efforts have made her a darling of antinuclear circles. In 1980 she received the inaugural Albert Einstein Peace Prize in New York City, an award presented by former U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Last year Norwegian pacifist organizations raised funds to give her a special People's Peace Prize to protest her having been overlooked by the Nobel Committee. Says Myrdal of her 1982 Nobel award: "The prize money will come in handy to support the peace campaign...