Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fare as well as the women, losing to such skiers as Kare Jerje, who won the jumping, or Karsten Midvedt, the cross country champion. Herje and Midvedt found the snow agreeable to their Norwegian temperaments and led University of Vermont to the men's title...
Says Albert Walker, hotel manager of the Norwegian-owned Royal Caribbean Cruise Line's Sun Viking: "The aim is to inundate people with pleasure and keep it coming all the time." On New Year's Eve, the Sun Viking departed Miami for a two-week cruise, carrying 792 revelers, a crew of 318 and TIME Correspondent Richard Woodbury. Reported Woodbury from Puerto Rico, three days and 21 meals later: "Desire lurks at every turn. The important questions of life as one peruses each day's activity sheet are reduced to which luncheon to sample, which deck tourney...
...showing profits like they're going out of style," says Morton Erstling, senior vice president of Eastern. Other fleet operators freely trumpet similar claims, but since most lines are foreign (Italian, Norwegian, Greek, even Soviet), privately owned and keep tightly guarded books, hard profit figures are impossible to nail down. Some lines, in fact, enjoy subsidies and tax breaks from their governments. Shipowners can cut costs by reducing crews and paring down provisions when the passenger load is light. But on some runs, 93% of the berths must be occupied for the shipowner to break even, and a half...
Scott (Arthur Hill) will not permit the use of Huskies (though his Norwegian rival Roald Amundsen, played by Michael Higgins, does) on the ground that it is unsporting. Offstage, the blizzards howl like the piercing moans of the damned...
Under the bitterest torments of nature, Scott and his companions reach the South Pole, only to find the Norwegian flag mocking them. On the horrible trek back, the men die one by one, with only the cruel snow to mourn and bury them...