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...have gathered for dinner. Many of the women are dressed in long gowns. The men are in dinner jackets and patent-leather pumps. It is a merry, excited, optimistic crowd. In the center, sitting at a table on a round, raised platform is a rather penguinesque, stolid son of Norwegian immigrants, Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson. It is difficult to conjure up a truly merry Senator Jackson, but as he smiles and nods to well-wishers, he is obviously pleased this evening, happy in his work, which is running flat-out for the presidency...
...year-old Norwegian maid, her employers, the Nelson Rockefellers, were very odd. One night, when they were late, she left dinner on the stove and went off to a party in Brooklyn. Next day Nelson's first wife, Mary Clark Rockefeller, demonstrated the helplessness of the very rich. "AnneMarie, what happened to you last night? I had to take my husband to Hamburg Heaven." That was only the beginning, as Anne-Marie Rasmussen reveals in her autobiography There Was Once a Time. Contrary to the American Dream, Second Son Steven had no sooner married her in 1959 than they...
...fresh from a three-year term, has tried to rally Western support, seeking in particular, a sympathetic lawyer. The Christians' response has been quiet and ineffectual. The World Council of Churches requested information and permission to send an observer, but got no reply. The Vins family approved a Norwegian judge as counsel, but he and three members of Parliament who wanted to attend the trial were refused visas. Last month Baptist World Alliance leaders-in Moscow for the All-Union...
...Norwegian government is trying hard to slow exploitation of its riches. Britain and other oil-hungry nations have drilled more than 330 exploratory wells in the North Sea. Norway has driven only 120-even though Statfjord and part of Ekofisk-two of the richest oilfields-lie under Norwegian waters...
Fish and Rigs. In addition, the government has imposed stiff fees for concession rights and royalty fees of 8% to 16% on every barrel of oil produced. It has also proposed an income tax of up to 91% on all revenues earned from oil pumped in Norwegian fields. Moreover, it has created a state-owned oil company, Statoil, that must be included as a partner in nearly all private drilling ventures. The government flatly forbids drilling north of the 62nd parallel, where most of the nation's 30,000 fishermen live and work. The fishermen fear that oil spills...