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They came from all over: a mill hand from Leningrad, a crown prince from Oslo, an oilman from Houston-some of the best small-boat sailors in the world. Two were former world champions, four were Olympic gold medalists, five had won the Scandinavian Gold Cup. For seven days, on the wind-lashed waters of Long Island Sound, they battled for the world's 5.5-meter sailing championship. And when the contest ended last week, they sadly packed their sail bags and left the championship to C. Raymond Hunt, 55, a bespectacled grandfather from Tilton, N.H., who had never...
Charles Ives: Washington's Birthday and Three Outdoor Scenes (William Strickland conducting the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Imperial Philharmonic of Tokyo; Composers Recordings). The four previously unrecorded pieces by Ives run from a delightfully winterstruck evocation of all outdoors to the musical equivalent of pop art-an aural collage of clipped folk tunes and imitative sounds. On the other side, the music of Composer William Flanagan gives a chaste and lovely setting to an early poem that Edward Albee now likes to forget he ever wrote...
From Cape Town to Oslo, the National Institutes of Health are spending $15 million a year on a whole series of overseas studies. "We're not in the foreign aid business," explains Dr. Martin M. Cummings. who heads the Institutes' Office of International Research. "We're spending money where we can get a concentration of excellence in skills, talents and resources." In most cases, a U.S. grant helps a foreign institution to do better work and improve local health standards. But by mandate of Congress, such considerations are secondary: the primary aim of financing foreign medical research...
...Osaka University Dr. Hideo Kikkawa has painstakingly bred 30 different mutant strains of houseflies to find out how some of them become resistant to insecticides. By a statistical quirk, Norway turns out to be the best place to compare the effects of different psychiatric treatments, including tranquilizers. The Oslo government has been keeping a register of mental illness cases since 1916, and its records are the world's best for a homogeneous, stable population. Among U.S. immigrants, and their descendants, from Mediterranean countries, a mysterious, periodic fever, easily mistaken for hepatitis or mononucleosis. is not uncommon. PHS has allotted...
Johan T. Ruud, professor of Marine Biology and president of the University of Oslo, Norway, will lecture tonight on "Antarctic Whaling: Studies in Biology and Population Dynamics." He will speak at the 2 Divinity Ave. auditorium...