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...believe it. Even though his friends told him last week that he had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Russia's greatest living writer, whose works are banned in the Soviet Union, remained incredulous. The friends, who normally shield his whereabouts carefully from outsiders, finally told a Norwegian correspondent in Moscow how he could reach Solzhenitsyn by telephone. Per Egil Hegge of Oslo's Aftenposten immediately called him to confirm the news. Then Hegge asked the author for a comment...
...first speech as president, the cool, suave Norwegian, 59, emphasized instead some less spectacular and more manageable problems. Hambro urged, for example, a halt to "the erosion of our environment," adding: "Pollution knows of no national boundaries, recognizes no political sovereignty and does not distinguish between rich and poor." This is hardly the primary purpose for which the U.N. was set up. Remembering that last year U.S. officials suggested that NATO also should start worrying about pollution, one might conclude that ecology, however important in its own right, has become the last refuge of despairing politicians and diplomats...
...problem is compounded by widespread ignorance about the hazards of mercury. Until Norwegian Chemist Norvald Fimreite found traces of mercury in fish taken from Lake St. Clair last spring, almost no one suspected that it could be one of the most dangerous water pollutants. Even some scientists assumed that mercury would sink to the bottom of lakes and rivers, pass harmlessly through fish, or kill a few fish without harming other organisms. Until this year, mercury was not listed as one of the substances to be tested for by the Federal Water Quality Administration, the Interior Department agency charged with...
...they drily called "much earlier speculations concerning the nature of the moon." Geophysicists Edward Schreiber and Orson L. Anderson carefully compared the sound-conducting properties of two lunar rocks with those of a wide assortment of cheeses. The result: Wisconsin muenster conveyed sound slightly faster than one moon rock; Norwegian goat cheese responded almost precisely like the other rock...
Divorced. Steven C. Rockefeller, 34, son of New York's Governor; by Anne Marie Rockefeller, 32, his Norwegian-born wife, who was once a maid in the Rockefellers' Manhattan household; on the grounds of incompatibility; after eleven years of marriage, three children; in Juarez, Mexico...