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...Long Island's Manhasset Bay Yacht Club, the Skoal Trophy Race for International Class sloops, from Oslo's Royal Norwegian Yacht Club; on Long Island Sound. Begun in 1951, the race alternates between Norway and Long Island; last year, sailing on their home waters, the Norwegians...
Operation Mainbrace, the NATO sea exercise (TIME, Sept. 22), ran into foul weather off the Norwegian coast last week. The allied fleets broke off operations in the north, headed south into Kiel Bay to interdict a simulated enemy attack across the Kiel Canal into Denmark. Since the east end of the canal is only 40 miles from the East German frontier, Mainbrace's planes were unarmed and the pilots were sternly warned to avoid Soviet territory...
Swedish & Swahili. Pinto, who had hunted spies in World War I, had first-rate qualifications for his job. He could ask, look and listen in Dutch, Flemish, English, French, German and Italian, and also had "a competent working knowledge of Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Rumanian and Swahili." For places, faces and cases, Pinto's memory was tenacious: he can still remember "not only what presents were given to me on my third birthday but who gave them and at what time of day they arrived." Stored in his mind like a library of microfilms were detailed pictures...
...school got its start under General Eisenhower, who hoped it would help SHAPE'S multi-nation families to live and work together in harmony. Last January, when the first term began in a reconverted farmhouse, there were 28 boys & girls on the rolls. Now there are 148 students-Norwegian, Danish, Italian, Canadian, Dutch, French, British and American-ranging from four-year-olds to teenagers. When the school opens next fall, Headmaster Rene Tallard, who is also senior English teacher at the boys' high school in St. Germain, expects the enrollment to jump...
Russia's Ilya Ehrenburg, detecting a disbelieving smile on the face of Per Monsen, an anti-Communist Norwegian editor, popped up and heatedly likened the alleged U.S. germ warfare to Nazi exterminations, then listed friends he had lost in Nazi camps. Monsen rose quietly, said he learned about Nazi camps from several years spent in them and that he had also lost friends, "not only in Nazi camps but in camps of different origin." Ehrenburg sat down...