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...Stalin's political prisoners, Wrede persuaded a former inmate of a Soviet prison camp, now living in Paris, to make drawings from which a grimly authentic set could be built. Then he took his all-male, largely English cast to a location in Norway 200 miles north of Oslo, where the topography, light conditions and bitter climate closely resemble those of Siberia. On that inhuman tundra, Wrede is trying to capture on film Solzhenitsyn's minutely detailed study of man's stubborn endurance in a world of inhumanity...
...dated as late 12th century. For the first time, the cross was reunited with the carved body of the crucified Christ that it is thought to have originally supported. By a fortuitous twist of fate, Medievalist Florens Deuchler, who organized the exhibition, noticed the Christ figure in an Oslo museum last summer, remembered the Metropolitan's cross, and realized from their similar scale, design and delicate coloring that the two were probably at one time part of the same work. The Romanesque Christ was inhumanly serene; the later Gothic Christ was often all too humanly agonized. This 1200 Christ...
...returned the $10 million. When the boatbuilder bemoaned his potential loss, according to one account, no less an official than Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas personally urged him to finish construction, saying: "It will work out." Next, a firm called Starboat & Weil, incorporated in Panama in November and having an Oslo address, offered to buy the boats for offshore-oil exploration. Starboat's incorporator was Ole Martin Siem, 53, much-respected president of Norway's largest shipbuilding firm, the Aker Group. The operating heads of Starboat, however, turned out to be Israelis who had ordered several commercial ships from...
...Sweden's powerful LO represents one worker in every two, and Denmark's LO also has every second worker as a member; Norway's encompasses a third of all breadwinners. Management groups are equally strong, well-organized-and enlightened. Corporations provide quite a few fringe benefits. Oslo's Tandbergs Radiofabrikk, for instance, supplies a gym for its employees and holds parties for them, including one near Christmas for their children...
Died. Sonja Henie, 57, Norwegian-born queen of the ice revues in the 1930s and '40s; of leukemia; in an ambulance plane between Paris and Oslo. The chubby, bedimpled daughter of a prosperous Oslo fur wholesaler, Sonja captured Norway's figure skating championship by the time she was ten. In 1927 she won the first of her ten consecutive world titles and the following year earned the first of three successive Olympic crowns. As astute in business as she was graceful on skates, she turned professional in 1936, made eleven movies (One in a Million, Thin...