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Five years ago a Norwegian statistician set a computer to work counting history's wars. The machine quickly, competently and a bit contemptuously announced that in 5,560 years of recorded human history there have been 14,531 wars, or, as the computer pointed out, 2.6135 a year...
...cried joyous guests in Oslo's Continental Hotel. Staid brokers on the stock exchange floor whooped happily. At last the socialist Labor Party was out of power after 30 years of nearly continuous rule. Out with Labor went tall, spare Einar Gerhardsen, 68, the Grand Old Man of Norwegian socialism and the country's Premier for as long as almost anybody could remember...
...figures [Sept. 3], we should point out for the record that S.A.S. is not exclusively Swedish and that we have not been a party to the air union discussions among certain other European carriers. S.A.S. is the result of a 20-year-old merger of the interests of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish airlines...
Mayan got its second chance this June, when the Cuban freighter Aracelio Iglesia collided with a Norwegian ship near the Panama Canal and had to be towed to the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone for repairs. Again Mayan filed for attachment, again the Czech embassy intervened, and again-last month -the claim was dismissed...
...years of higher education, I've had a chance to talk to a professor man to man," recalls one Salzburg graduate, accustomed to Europe's academic formality. Opinions flow so freely at Salzburg that a Yugoslav seminarian once pulled a knife on an Italian. By contrast, a Norwegian fellow spotted a German at whom he had thrown a hand grenade during World War II, and they became intellectual buddies...