Word: norwegians
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King by Election. In 1905, after centuries of subjugation to one or another of its neighbors, Norway effected a peaceful divorce from its current master, Sweden. Seeking a constitutional king in the relatively neutral ground of Denmark, the Norwegian Parliament offered the crown to the second son of the prolific royal House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (whose members today include King Paul of Greece, Prince Philip of Great Britain and the Duchess of Kent). The young "sailor Prince," as he was called, agreed only if the people of Norway confirmed his choice in a national plebiscite. This...
Some foreign investors pass up the stock market, buy up large amounts of marks. Said a Dusseldorf banker: "The other day a Norwegian walked in with 2,000,000 DM he had bought and asked us to keep it until the day when it might suddenly become a much larger sum." Throughout the world, foreigners who have bought goods from West Germany are paying their bills with unaccustomed haste to beat any possible revaluation, and sellers to West Germany are letting their debts go in expectation of revaluation profits...
...Hundreds of hours every day in this capitol are wasted by officials who are paid $22,500 a year, standing in line to get something to eat, as if they were in Moscow, queued up to get a yoyo. And when one does eat, one is packed closer than Norwegian sardines in a Bolivian...
...Washington's Mayflower Hotel to reminisce with some old friends. Among them: Lieut. General James Doolittle (now a vice president of Shell Oil) and onetime Air Force Chief of Staff Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, now Civil Air Patrol head and director of four corporations. The two old flyers heard Norwegian-born Balchen's World War II exploits recounted (he built a secret Army Air Force base in Greenland, completed 51 rescue missions there, later parachuted supplies to the underground on 67 low-level flights to Norway, made no round trips in unarmed planes ferrying internees from Sweden to Britain...
...suck candy in the Congo" (i.e., do not take innocence into dark places) seems to be the moral pointed by British Novelist Elspeth Huxley,* latest explorer to go soul-searching in the jungle. Dr. Ewart Clausen, a famed Norwegian scientist, has renounced the world for his bush clinic at Luala, in French Equatorial Africa, and has become "a secular saint in the humanist calendar." From the far corners of the earth pilgrims come to sit at his feet; he proffers a bag of sticky bull's-eyes, advice, and the magic of his presence...