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Died. Ragnar Frisch, 77, Norwegian economist who, with Dr. Jan Tinbergen of The Netherlands, was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Economics, in 1969; in Oslo. Collaborators since the '30s, Frisch and Tinbergen were honored for developing econometrics, a branch of economics that employs complex mathematical formulas to predict how a change in one of a national economy's variables will affect the others. While Tinbergen applied econometrics to underdeveloped countries, Frisch worked closer to home and came to be regarded as the father of Scandinavia's modern planned economic systems...
Nordiac Captain Jon Rikert placed fifth behind several top Norwegian skiers in what Coach Peter Carter called "a fabulous cross country race...
...Norwegian cities of Oslo and Tromsø are only 650 miles and 100 minutes apart. The psychological distance, however, is much greater, for Tromsø lies 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, and its 40,000 inhabitants live two months of each year without seeing the sun. In this polar blackness or mørketiden* (murky time), the mentally unstable may slip over the edge into a temporary state of profound mental disturbance. Even those who are emotionally healthy the rest of the year may become unaccountably tense, restless, fearful and preoccupied with thoughts of death and suicide...
Sale of sleeping pills, pep pills and tranquilizers rises sharply during møfrketiden, and Tromsø has a higher incidence of hard-drug use than any other Norwegian city except Oslo. Illness, most of it psychosomatic, increases, and accidents multiply. In remote areas, young men sometimes adopt a tough-guy, risk-defying attitude. A young construction worker, for instance, may take off in his snowmobile in his shirtsleeves-and freeze to death when the motor stalls in the middle of nowhere...
...something serious," she says. "I don't want to have shared it with too many." Liv devotes much of her attention to Linn, who, with a nanny, travels to her locations, and she spends as much time as she can at her house in Norway. Built in Norwegian style with a veranda warmed by a fireplace, the house is a haven where she can cook her favorite Chinese dishes, read and muse on the profound culture shock that Hollywood represents...