Word: oslo
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Contemporary Humanism is catching on. Last week, at the Third Congress of the International Humanist and Ethical Union in Oslo. 400 sober-minded Humanists were on hand, representing more than 300,000 of their fellow believers in 24 countries. Although West Germany subsidizes some Humanist organizations, and The Netherlands allows them to have their own army chaplains, Humanist societies are generally denied the recognition that governments accord to religious groups. But what they lack in privilege, the Humanists make up in prestige: the ranks of the American Humanist Association are heavy with scientists and intellectuals, and the international union boasts...
...Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 46, has headed Ceylon's government for two years, since the assassination of her Prime Minister husband, Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike. Tough-minded, multilingual Frances Elizabeth Willis, 63, first career woman diplomat in the U.S. to achieve ambassadorial rank, was serving in the Oslo embassy when President Kennedy decided last year that the lady Prime Minister and the lady diplomat might get along famously...
Born. To Princess Astrid, 30, comely daughter of Norway's King Olav V, and her commoner husband Johan Martin Ferner, 35, a prosperous Oslo clothier: their first child, a daughter; in Oslo...
...case of Denmark and Ireland, who have also asked to join, the major hitch to Norway's application is the outcome of Britain's complicated negotiations with the Six. If London's bid falls through. Norway would pull out. Otherwise, Oslo will start negotiating for membership terms this summer-and the bargaining should not be difficult. Half of Norway's most important exports (fish, metals, paper) are already bought by Common Market customers. In addition, Norway's highly developed hydroelectric power system would fill a gap in the energy needs of the Six. The hardest...
...roofed, concrete-block bungalow back home in Groutville to which the Verwoerd regime restricts him. He went on a shopping spree with his wife, delighted photographers by throwing a few snowballs outside the Norwegian Storting (Parliament). But it was when Luthuli rose in the great hall of Oslo University to make his acceptance speech, and at a dinner the next evening, that he lifted the occasion far above mere warmth or politics. Dressed in his tribal costume-flowing blue-and-black robe, leopardskin cap with monkey tails, a necklace of leopard's teeth-Luthuli spoke for all that...