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...Norwegian scientists predicted that in a few days the radiation level in Norway would pass the worst period of 1958, when the U.S. and Britain were testing along with the Soviets...
Born. To Willy Brandt, 47, West Berlin's scrappy mayor, while he was visiting New York City to receive the annual Freedom House Award, and his Norwegian wife, the former Rut Hansen, 41: a third son; in Berlin...
...classroom of Geography Master John Beacham. 32. who was to lead the trip, had been decorated for months with Norwegian flags, travel posters and fjord-toothed maps of Norway. The library copy of The Young Traveler in Norway was dirty and dog-eared from long use. For months, the boys had been working hard at odd jobs to save $76 apiece, the price of the trip. Last month, Dennis Field, son of one of the school's cleaning women, reluctantly gave up his place because he could not afford it. Quentin Green and another boy promptly applied...
...Emil Hansen in the north Schleswig village of Nolde (he did not change his name until he married, at 34, in 1901), he identified himself with the bleak environment of north Germany, acquiring an outer taciturnity and an inner turbulence shared by those other brooding giants of the north: Norwegian Edvard Munch and Belgian Recluse James Ensor. As a peasant lad, Nolde was early given to hallucinations. By night, "the cracks in the peeling walls became faces and fantastic shapes." By day, he imagined raging storms racing across the flat meadowland near the North...
Larson got into medicine through the drugstore: his Norwegian immigrant father owned a pharmacy in Clarkfield. Minn. As a boy, he toiled in the store with steadily diminishing enthusiasm. "After working until midnight one Christmas Eve and then doing inventory the day after Christmas, I'd had it," he recalls. Then he fell under the influence of a "wonderful old country doctor." Now Specialist Larson concedes that "no doubt he was more wonderful as an unforgettable character than as a doctor. He used to take me hunting prairie chickens, and I'd tag along on his calls...