Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harl Cook, a fortyish man whose sideburns are frankly graying, and his Norwegian wife Tulla, a handsome Nordic blond who leads one to believe that American ways agree with her. Both show good taste and candor, and come to Cambridge after successfully establishing a similar shop in Provincetown...
...Norwegian Parliament repealed a constitutional clause excluding the Jesuits from the officially Lutheran country, thus ending a 142-year-old ban that once also included "other monkish" orders and Jews...
When Senior Commissioned Boatswain George Wookey of the British navy went over the side of the experimental diving ship H.M.S. Reclaim, he knew he was headed for a trying experience. The Reclaim was anchored in a cold Norwegian fiord, and on the bottom, at 600 ft. below the surface, was a steel table. Boatswain Wookey's job was to descend to the table in an ordinary diving suit and stay there for a specified time. If he accomplished this and survived, he would break the diving record by a wide margin...
...over Europe last week, javelin-throwers were trying Erauzquin's new technique. Results were phenomenal. Training with the Finnish Olympic team, 26-year-old Antti Seppala got off a 270-ft. toss. In France, 165-ft. javelin-throwers hit 230 ft. At week's end Norwegian Egil Danielsen repaired to a field (the local stadium was too small), whirled three times, and flung the javelin 304 ft. 1.68 in., nearly 30 ft. farther than the world's record of 274 ft. 5¾ in. claimed by Poland's Janusz Sidlo...
...strange effect of current and bottom on the vessel's own hull curvature. In addition, the Suez pilot must be familiar with the workings of virtually every type of vessel and must be able to issue orders in a babel ranging from Greek and Arabic to French and Norwegian. Under the canal's pre-Nasser bosses, a master's certificate backed by ten years' experience at sea were minimum requirements for a Suez pilot, and even then it took two years of apprenticeship on the canal to teach a new pilot the ropes and another...