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Kissinger chose well: among the graduates of his seminars are Belgium's prospective Prime Minister Leo Tinde-mans, West German Minister for Economic Cooperation Erhard Eppler, Israeli Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, South Korean former Prime Minister Chung II Kwon, Japanese Minister of Trade and Industry Yasuhiro Nakasone, Norwegian Foreign Minister Knut Frydenlund, and such prominent nongovernment figures as West German Editor Theo Sommer and British Historian Michael Foot...
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...
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...