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Died. Ragnar Frisch, 77, Norwegian economist who, with Dr. Jan Tinbergen of The Netherlands, was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Economics, in 1969; in Oslo. Collaborators since the '30s, Frisch and Tinbergen were honored for developing econometrics, a branch of economics that employs complex mathematical formulas to predict how a change in one of a national economy's variables will affect the others. While Tinbergen applied econometrics to underdeveloped countries, Frisch worked closer to home and came to be regarded as the father of Scandinavia's modern planned economic systems...
...found that at Harvard there was no such pursuit. For Hinze to get credit in Norway for his undergraduate environmental studies work, he would have to major in it. Since he could not major in it at Harvard, he decided to return home to the University of Oslo...
...They display much more of a 'couldn't care less' attitude." In Tromsø, reports Psychiatrist Harald Reppesgaard of Asgard Mental Hospital, "the whole city slows down. People's concentration and work capacity are reduced, and they are always tired." Adds R. Kaare Rodahl, an Oslo physiologist who has done research in the Arctic: "The polar night has a tendency to bring out the least desirable elements in human behavior-envy, jealousy, suspicion, egotism, irritability...
Sale of sleeping pills, pep pills and tranquilizers rises sharply during møfrketiden, and Tromsø has a higher incidence of hard-drug use than any other Norwegian city except Oslo. Illness, most of it psychosomatic, increases, and accidents multiply. In remote areas, young men sometimes adopt a tough-guy, risk-defying attitude. A young construction worker, for instance, may take off in his snowmobile in his shirtsleeves-and freeze to death when the motor stalls in the middle of nowhere...
...long darkness may well have made northern Norwegians more tolerant and forgiving than most people. In the north, says Dr. Karl Hartviksen, chief psychiatrist at Oslo's Gaustad Hospital, "people know that man cannot rule nature, so they don't expect him to be able to rule his own nature, which is even more formidable...