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...where the founder of modern botany, Carolus Linnaeus, studied in the 18th century. ("God created," say the tidy Swedes. "Linnaeus put things in order.") Stockholm cops, though issued guns during Khrushchev's visit, normally cling grimly to their accustomed sabers. Proud Viking longboats are lovingly preserved in an Oslo museum. At Drottningholm, a summer palace across Malaren Lake from Stockholm, 18th century operas are staged for the public with their original sets in the only surviving court theater of the period...
...Lofoten Islands. But the nation's most vital resource is its merchant fleet. With 2,833 freighters in operation, Norway has more tonnage afloat than the U.S. One man who controls much of Norway's shipping is Niels Onstad, who lives in a spacious white mansion outside Oslo with his wife, onetime Skating Star Sonja Henie. Many of Norway's ships are local inventions such as "parcel" tankers, which can carry up to 40 different liquids simultaneously...
...Walter Gropius used the same Pentelic marble that forms the Parthenon. Edward Durell Stone's grillwork adorns New Delhi like a Hindu temple. In Baghdad, José Luis Sert put up a tentlike structure fit for a caliph and cooled by channels of river water. Saarinen warmed his Oslo embassy with teak screens; Yamasaki lightened his Kobe consulate with airy Japanese panels. The openings of U.S. embassies have come to be as eagerly anticipated as big Broadway first nights. This month the State Department opens...
...London, Rome, Paris, Bonn, Beirut, Oslo, Stockholm, Istanbul, Teheran, New Delhi, Nairobi, Salisbury, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Hong Kong, Sydney, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei, Manila, Tokyo, Washington, Salt Lake City, Ottawa and Montreal...
...refusing to join the International Air Transport Association, which sets identical fares for the world's major airlines, Icelandic remains free to underprice its competitors. Its fare between New York and London is $231 v. a standard jet economy fare of $263; between New York and Oslo it is $250 v. $305. When I.A.T.A. carriers cut their fares in April, Icelandic plans reductions of its own to keep an average 20% below the I.A.T.A. level...