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Philosopher Bertrand Russell, 76, saved his life by fighting the icy sea off Trondheim when the Norwegian flying boat he was on crashed; 19 of the 45 passengers died. After swimming around until rescued, Russell said: "I don't suppose I was swimming for more than about a minute. For one who has been swimming regularly for about 70 years, it wasn't much...
...pronounce all that, read the umlauts as in Norwegian, and bite the "i" and short "a" sounds and the terminal "ahs" as in Nord-Deutsch...
...Caribbean, four days out of the Cuban port of Mariel, a storm struck the Euzkera. She sank so swiftly that only twelve men & women had time to climb into the one lifeboat that got away. Six days later, the Norwegian motorship Caribe sighted the lone lifeboat off the coast of Nicaragua. She took the survivors aboard, headed for Cura...
...white tropical suit, in Tel Aviv a grey bemedaled uniform. He also brought considerable Red Cross experience as an intermediary between belligerents. In World War II he had arranged an exchange of disabled German and British prisoners of war, later persuaded the Nazis to send some 15,000 Norwegian and Danish hostages to Sweden...
Paris and the rive gauche seem to be a universal objective among the travelers, but they're going all over. One of today's graduates will be climbing the Swiss Alps within a few weeks; another will be exploring the Norwegian fjords; and a third intends to wander among the cypress trees of Van Gogh's Arles...