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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...
...strode into that world from the fruited plains of Velva, N. Dak., where his father, the son of a Norwegian immigrant, worked as a local banker. As a boy, Sevareid would gaze out a window of the Velva schoolhouse at vast, monotonous fields of wheat and dream of the distant cities pictured in his geography book. He escaped: to Minneapolis, where his family fled when drought hit Velva and where he went to the University of Minnesota; to Europe, where Edward R. Murrow hired him in 1939 for CBS's illustrious wartime team; to Washington, where...
Thor Heyerdahl, 63, the Norwegian anthropologist, explorer and adventurer, believes in dramatizing his theories. To show that the Polynesian islands could have been settled by ancient mariners from South America, he crossed the Pacific on a balsa raft. To demonstrate that Egyptians might have reached the New World centuries before Columbus, he conquered the Atlantic in a boat made of papyrus. Now Heyerdahl is about to take a reed boat down the Tigris River from the purported site of the biblical Garden of Eden, eventually reach the open sea and either sail to India or East Africa, or sink-whichever...
William Lewis '79, a second-year Viking, said yesterday's banquet "corresponds with traditional harvest festivals in which Norwegian people would build up spirit to maintain themselves throughout long and cold winters...
...though drilling activity has accelerated dramatically around the world since the quintupling of OPEC prices that began in 1973, new finds have been disappointing. But many promising sites have yet to be drilled-the outer continental shelf off the U.S. coast, for example, or much of the northern Norwegian coast. Oil geologists generally think there are no Saudi-size deposits waiting to be discovered, but there might be a few more North Slopes and North Seas...