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VALDEMAR MATHESON Oslo, Norway...
...crucial 1% . The bill has yet to pass Congress, but it has caused such uncertainty that foreign bond sales from the countries affected have just about evaporated. Wall Street bankers have chased customers in vain; last week they lost a $15 million bond issue from The City of Oslo to London bankers. One result: foreign dollar bond sales in European markets rose from $10 million in the whole year before the tax proposal to nearly $100 million in the half year afterward...
More remarkable than Dr. Scholander's interest in the subject and the answer he found was his experimental approach. He took seals to his laboratory at the University of Oslo, strapped them to boards and dunked them in a bathtub, to simulate diving. Now at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla, Calif., he works with Dr. Robert W. Eisner, a physiologist who trains seals to simulate diving by voluntarily holding their own noses under a few inches of water...
They came from all over: a mill hand from Leningrad, a crown prince from Oslo, an oilman from Houston-some of the best small-boat sailors in the world. Two were former world champions, four were Olympic gold medalists, five had won the Scandinavian Gold Cup. For seven days, on the wind-lashed waters of Long Island Sound, they battled for the world's 5.5-meter sailing championship. And when the contest ended last week, they sadly packed their sail bags and left the championship to C. Raymond Hunt, 55, a bespectacled grandfather from Tilton, N.H., who had never...
Charles Ives: Washington's Birthday and Three Outdoor Scenes (William Strickland conducting the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Imperial Philharmonic of Tokyo; Composers Recordings). The four previously unrecorded pieces by Ives run from a delightfully winterstruck evocation of all outdoors to the musical equivalent of pop art-an aural collage of clipped folk tunes and imitative sounds. On the other side, the music of Composer William Flanagan gives a chaste and lovely setting to an early poem that Edward Albee now likes to forget he ever wrote...