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...apartment overlooking Central Park. He took in the big town's other sights and, feeling the salt rising in his veins, even headed into New York harbor to inspect the Coast Guard's ocean rescue facilities on Governors Island before catching a jet back to Oslo...
...seven years the royal palace in Oslo had been without a woman-ever since King Olav V's youngest daughter, Astrid, married a commoner. But now the King and Crown Prince Harold, 31, will no longer live in lonely masculine splendor. The King has consented to Harald's marriage to Sonja Har-aldsen, 30, the striking blonde daughter of an Oslo clothing-store manager whom Harald courted for ten years. Royalists were soon aflutter over the fact that Sonja, a commoner, will receive queenly rights when Harald ascends the throne. That issue hardly concerned the Prince...
Quilts & Space Seats. Such light, sentimental touches delight many overseas visitors. "The largest industrial nation of the world does not exhibit one single automobile, supersonic plane or computer," marveled the Frankfurter Allgemeine. "They are not trying to educate or boast; they are just pleasing." Oslo's Aftenposten agreed, called the exhibits "a breath from another world...
Like Father. Envious competitors consider Bergesen aloof and insufferably vain, not the least for his habit of walking the three miles from his suburban home to his Oslo office each morning, while a chauffeured limousine trails behind. Nine years ago, the rivals got an unexpected recruit, when his son Berge Sigval Bergesen repeated a bit of family history: he broke with the family firm, railing that father found it "impossible to retire." Now 48, Berge has his own charter operation called Sigship. Warily staying away from tankers, he specializes in bulk carriers - many of them also leviathans in their class...
During his recent trip to Moscow, Charles de Gaulle talked to the Kremlin about adopting SECAM for Russia. By last week the Soviets had agreed to go ahead with SECAM and nine East European Communist nations promptly fell into line. At an Oslo meeting of the International Consultative Conference on Radio Communications last month, Greece and Monaco also opted for SECAM, giving it a 16-nation lineup. Twelve Western European countries, including the United Kingdom, chose PAL, while Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain remained undecided...