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King will go to Oslo to receive the award on Dec. 10. He plans to turn over "every penny" of the award- $54,000-to the civil rights movement...
...OSLO, NORWAY--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has been awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize...
...announcing the 1964 winner of the coveted award, the Oslo Nobel Institute said yesterday "Martin Luther King has consistently asserted the principle of nonviolence...
...Norwegians had had enough of Nikita Khrushchev even before he arrived. Television had shown the Russian Premier touring Sweden and Denmark, had reported his boorish belittling of Danish farming and his sneering remarks on Swedish defenses. When he clambered onto the quay in Oslo, a ragged cheer broke out from assembled Iron Curtain diplomats-but not from the 3,000 curious Norwegians who had gathered to examine the visitor. One little old lady was moved to waggle her umbrella at Khrushchev and shout "Murderer" until a manners-minded policeman placed his white-gloved hand firmly over her mouth...
...murky and conflicting. True, mating habits in rural Scandinavia may differ from accepted norms in Syracuse or Sacramento. This probably has more to do with rural isolation and the long winter months than with such newfangled ideas as pensions for Grandpa or socialized playpens. In any case, from Oslo to Stockholm to Copenhagen, no one seems to mind all that much. Busily building prosperity for all, Scandinavia has in large part become a place, as Denmark's Poet-Bishop N. F. S. Grundtvig foresaw a century ago, "Where few have too much, and still fewer too little...