Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson victory over Yale in a five-way ski meet was the biggest news to come out of Lyndonville, Vermont, last weekend. It was no surprise that MIT's team of Norwegian exchange students took first place or that Williams and Norwich ended up fourth and fifth respectively...
Before he left Oslo, he had told the Storting that neutrality between the East and West was an illusion. Washington, pleased, had spoken admiringly of Norwegian guts. But when Lange got to Washington, he was met with warm handshakes and cooling answers...
...whom the U.S. State Department had blown hot & cold for a week, Halvard Lange, Norway's Foreign Minister, headed home for Oslo remarkably unruffled. Lange had been sent to the U.S. by the Norwegian Storting (Parliament) to find out just what it would mean to Norway-put & take-to join in the proposed North Atlantic defense pact...
...feet on the ground if he were to cope with the U.S.S.R. He showed he had both when, the morning after the party, he wiped the slate clean of a lesser problem. Standing in the smoke-filled Oslo officers' club beneath a foot-high wall inscription of the Norwegian kings' motto, "Alt for Norge" (All for Norway), Lange voiced his final no to the Swedish-Danish suggestion of a Scandinavian neutrality bloc...
Nobody was more surprised than Kongsgaard himself. Although born in Kongsberg, Norway, birthplace of a long list of ski-jumping greats (including the Ruud brothers, Birger, Sigmund and Asbjörn), the 6-ft.-11 Norwegian does not take his skiing with professional seriousness. At 26, he is more anxious about getting good engineering marks at the University of Idaho, where he is an exchange student. Says Sverre, shrugging matter-of-factly: "Some things we must do; I have to study. Skiing is a diversion...