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Died. Henrik Shipstead, 79, son of a Norwegian immigrant to Minnesota, who in 1922 became the first U.S. Senator elected on the Farmer-Labor ticket, served four terms-the last as a Republican-before his intransigent isolationist career was ended in the 1946 primary by Harold Stassen's hand-picked candidate, Republican Edward J. Thye; of congestive heart failure complicated by terminal pneumonia; in Alexandria, Minn...
...many free-world nations was dismay and indignation at Washington. Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Mohammed Ikramullah stiffly declared that, if Soviet charges that Powers' flight began at Peshawar proved true, Pakistan would "lodge a strong protest with the Government of the U.S." With less justification, the Norwegian government did make a formal protest, asked the U.S. "to take all necessary steps to avoid that similar landings are planned in the future." In Japan, where the U.S. currently bases three U-2s, the opposition Socialist Party seized on the issue to stall parliamentary ratification of Premier Nobusuke Kishi...
Moving up the Welland, the British freighter La Selva bounced off a highway drawbridge, knocking it eight inches out of line. Three other ships missed lock approaches and ran aground. At the head of the lakes the Norwegian freighter Dagfred won the race to pick up the season's first grain cargo-and slammed its bow into a Port Arthur grain elevator. As one British tanker skipper said wryly: "The season has opened with a bang...
...play poses an odd biological question: "Why should we belong to the dry land? Why not to the sea?" The question occurs most frequently to a Norwegian lady named Ellida, who is haunted by an uneasy feeling that she is land locked. Her liberation comes in the form of a deep-sea sailor, who offers her the chance to slide down the ways and out to where "the seals lie upon the reefs and bask in the midday sun." Ellida sports it for a time with the sailor, but at play's end she chooses a terrestrial admirer...
...seven minutes-that the waiting crowds will have little opportunity to cheer. Royalty abroad was behaving coolly. Margaret's closest European relative, King Olaf of Norway, sent his regrets and those of his son, Prince Harald, because of a "previous obligation." The obligation: the 200th anniversary of the Norwegian Society of Sciences in Trondheim. Other pleas of "prior engagements" were arriving from continental royalty...