Word: norwegians
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Eric Jewett, Gordon Adler, Scott Johnson, Peter Anton, and Tom Cavin will be on the Alpine team as well, but Dartmouth and Vermont probably have untouchable strength. As for the jumping, the winners will surely be Norwegian and be on full scholarship to schools like Vermont...
...exporter of oil by the mid-1980s (although the country is starting a drastic austerity program now). Norway's North Sea holdings are also large, and it is determined to squeeze out every benefit it can get, including big royalty demands from oil companies and use of Norwegian materials in pipeline construction. "The Arabs aren't the only Arabs," cracks one top American oil executive...
Died. H.I. (for Haakon Ingolf) Romnes, 66, former board chairman of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; of leukemia; in Sarasota, Fla. Dubbed "the Mild Viking" for his Norwegian parentage and his quiet style of leadership, Romnes began his career as a phone installer, and as A T & T board chairman steered the giant corporation from $13 billion in revenues in 1967 to $18.4 billion...
Half the physics prize is to be divided between Japanese-born Leo Esaki, 48, of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York and Norwegian-born Ivar Giaever, 44, of G.E.'s Research and Development Center in Schenectady, N.Y. The other half goes to Welsh-born Brian D. Josephson, 33, of Cambridge University. In a series of brilliant experiments and calculations, the three scientists explored different aspects of a phenomenon that has become increasingly significant in modern electronics: electron "tunneling," the passage of electrons through insulating material that, according to classical physics, they should...
Deknatel, an expert on medieval and modern art, taught at Harvard from 1932 until his retirement last year. He was the author of "Edvard Munch," the first English biography of the Norwegian expressionist. After its publication in 1950, Deknatel was awarded the "Knight's Cross First Class, of the Royal Order of St. Olaf" by the Norwegian government...