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...that have applied to join the Common Market, Ireland's vote last week may carry influence far beyond its borders. Norway will have a referendum in September. Its farmers and fishermen feel sufficiently threatened by Common Market competition that recent polls show a majority against membership-though the Norwegian Storting, or Parliament, will make the final decision. Denmark will hold a binding referendum in October; polls show 48% of the population favoring entry, only 28% opposed, and 24% undecided. The ringing yes from Ireland can only hearten pro-Market politicians in both countries...
...euphoric highs. Sometimes, Bejerot says, it is even possible to trace waves of addiction to particular carriers. In 1949, for example, he discovered that a small group of Stockholm bohemians was responsible for a surge of amphetamine use that eventually produced 12,000 new Swedish addicts. Similarly, eleven Norwegian drug users deported from Sweden in 1967 stimulated 100 new addiction cases in Norway when they returned home...
Today I'm working on a ship from Poland. I talk to foreign nationals all the time. The other day this Norwegian guy says to me: "You know, Basil, America is so big, it can do anything it wants. But it's so big, it don't listen to the small people." That hit me kind of good...
...remembers that her mother was determined to have her enter a profession. "Mother said, 'When you educate a man, you educate an individual. When you educate a woman, you educate a family.'" After graduating from Ohio State, she shipped off aboard a Norwegian freighter as a dishwasher, worked and studied in Paris, and finally financed her way home via Africa, the Middle East and Asia by writing 200 newspaper articles along the way. Back in the States, she tried to become a reporter but could find nothing better than taking telephone dictation for United Press International in Washington...
...Norwegian had obviously never visited Northbrook, III. (see box, page 51), which produced Dianne Holum, 20, Anne Henning, 16, and three other members of the U.S.'s 16-mem-ber speed-skating team. Dianne turned U.S. fortunes around in short order. The smoothly striding brunette put on a strong closing drive in the 1.500-meter race to win the U.S.'s first gold medal with a new Olympic record time of 2:20.85. Then it was Anne's turn. Matched with Canada's Sylvia Burka in the 500 meters, she lost at least a full second...