Word: oslo
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Lawrence H. Johnson '57 of Adams House and Duluth, Minnesota, and Hermann A. Kopp '57 of Leverett House and Oslo, Norway, have been elected to the Permanent Class Committee. Johnson was the victor over Terence S. Turner '57 in a run-off election...
JOHAN C. BjORK Oslo, Norway...
...Whips. Some, like Julius Leber, a Social-Democratic member of the Reichstag, spoke in tones of courageous epigram in which Americans can hear an echo of Nathan Hale: "I have only one head, and what better cause to risk it for than this?" Others, like Fetter Moen, an Oslo insurance man who, at 43, found him self under the steel whips of the Gestapo, said the simple truth. In pinpricks on a roll of paper, Moen wrote: "Was interrogated twice. Was whipped . . . Am terribly afraid of pain. But no fear of death...
Norway offers only one summer course at the University of Oslo, specifially for American students, which lasts from June 23 to August...
...Norwegians in turn refused to be cowed. Aalesund authorities began court proceedings against the offending boats (usual punishment is confiscation of the catch and a stiff fine of approximately $14,000 per poaching boat). The Russians advised Oslo that it was all "a regrettable misunderstanding," said there had been no premeditated poaching, and appealed to Norway to release the 15 Soviet boats. Relieved Norwegians stopped looking for deep political motives beneath the Red herring chase. "I think it's just plain fish-nothing else," said an official...