Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swedes. Today, the country has nearly 1,500 orienteering clubs with 189,000 members. All schoolchildren over twelve spend two full days a month practicing the allied arts of map reading, woodsmanship and cross-country running until they become fully oriented. Evangelical Swedes have taught the sport to their Norwegian, Danish and Finnish neighbors, are working hard to spread it to Germany, Britain, Switzerland and Canada. They have little hope for the "car-crazy Americans...
...Norwegian island 165 miles inside the Arctic Circle, engineers are blasting an airfield out of rock. In Balikesir, where two years ago Turks welcomed their first U.S.-made jets by sacrificing a sheep, Turkish pilots stand ready to "scramble" whenever the radar indicates enemy aircraft. Both outposts, and with them an immense array of armies, navies and air fleets, are joined together in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, history's greatest peacetime military alliance...
...Port Washington. N.Y., members of the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club found the kind of dusty going they are used to at home, sailed their International one-design yachts through heavy weather that dismasted an American boat, and beat out the Manhasset Bay Yacht Club for the Skoal Trophy...
...Minnesota Republican Kristjan Valdimar ("Val") Bjornson, an ex-reporter who can and does orate in Icelandic, Finnish, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, was nominated to run against Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey...
Behind him Dulles left his wife and secretary (both too exhausted after Manila to face another trip) and two disappointed hostesses (the wives of the Dutch and Norwegian ambassadors) who had been expecting him to dinner. With him he took a new relay of advisers-all European specialists-a change of linen (with nylon accessories, to beat the laundry problem) and two constant companions: a pair of swimming trunks and his dinner jacket. As the big Air Force DC-6 carried the traveling Secretary into the North Atlantic night, U.S. TV audiences saw his image and heard his voice...