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...father's will that he must spend a substantial inheritance entirely on world travel; of cerebral arteriosclerosis; in Charlottesville, Va. Among Dr. Ruskin's involuntary travels: a 4½-year investigation of Baffin Island's "white Eskimos," whom he decided were descendants of marooned Norwegian explorers...
...enemy attack, her nuclear-tipped priority cargo of 16 Polaris missiles constantly at the ready, George Washington was bound on history's first underwater missile patrol. Skipper Osborn's orders were secret, but best guesses were that he would take station beneath the subarctic waters of the Norwegian and Barents seas. Cruising within 1,200-mile range of Soviet targets from Moscow to Omsk (see map), George Washington will be joined by her sister ship, Patrick Henry, within two months. With their total of 32 missiles, the two ships will of themselves fill any known present-day missile...
Reduced Role. Midwifery may be the world's second oldest ' profession, once ranked among its most respected. Plato made no distinction between mother and midwife, used the same word (maia) for both. An old Norwegian proverb advised: "The greatest joy is to become a mother; the second greatest is to be a midwife." But since 1648, when male doctors-at Paris' Hôtel-Dieu-were first permitted to attend a mother during a normal delivery, the role of the midwife throughout much of the world has been reduced to that of a mere birth attendant, patronized...
...July, when the Outer Seven put into effect its first mutual 20% tariff reduction, the effect on Finnish trade was instant and disastrous. In Britain, Finland's best market, Finnish lumber and paper exporters ran into big trouble from Swedish and Norwegian competition, had to drop prices by as much as $5.60 a ton. Kekkonen, never very popular, was soon in bad political trouble. Last week Nikita Khrushchev decided the time had come to drop in and give him a hand...
...Ndjili Airport. First he got permission to station a few unarmed Congolese at the field. To everyone's astonishment, he then arrived himself at the head of 114 soldiers, all armed to the teeth. Soon Congolese soldiers were arresting every "suspicious" U.N. man in sight. A group of Norwegian soldiers fresh in from Europe were held as "Belgian paratroopers," and a Pakistan colonel was threatened with bayonets. "I give up!" shouted a U.N. brigadier from Ghana, throwing his garrison cap into the air in disgust after an argument with the Congo's comic-opera army commander. "This...