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SCANDINAVIA has opened its salmon-fishing preserves to the public, and sportsmen can buy rights to fish for rates ranging from $35 to $3,000 a week, depending on the richness of the rivers. A placid but entertaining attraction is the "dollar train" from Stockholm to Lapland, a seven-day, $425 railroad cruise through the magnificence of the fiords and mountain country...
...enormous turnout of tourists this year. And if they ever get beyond haggling with the marketplace throngs of Delhi and Calcutta, visitors can luxuriate in the Shangri-lalike valleys of Kashmir, where they can rent a houseboat for as little as $49 a week and drift about the placid, clear mountain lakes. For the more rugged visitor, Nepal has the Tigertops Hotel, which offers its guests an elephant-back excursion through the jungles. For the athletic, there is a $300-a-week hiking trip through tiny Buddhist villages, across flower-carpeted Himalayan meadows and on up to the level...
Minnesotan Tim Sheehy, with 21 points in 11 games, centers the first line. On his wings are John Snyder, son of a Clarkson professor, and Tim Smythe, from Lake Placid, N.Y. Kevin Ahearn (24 points) Charlie Toczylowski (22 points), and John Sullivan, all from the Boston area, from the second line...
...figures than with the sculptural environments in which he places them (see color). "You might say I am a student of Aristotle," explained the mustachioed Missourian in his suburban St. Louis studio last week. "Man has to deal with things around him. The environment is sometimes threatening, sometimes placid...
...chief of Washington's oldest regulatory agency is William B. Camp, a placid Texan who has invested 29 of his 52 years in the 105-year-old Comptroller's office, rising from bank examiner to Saxon's first deputy. In naming Camp, Johnson followed his recent tendency to select noncontroversial careerists to head regulatory agencies. The appointment was hailed unanimously by bankers, Congressmen, officials of other Government agencies and Jimmy Saxon. Reported the American Banker, daily bible of moneymen: "Almost everyone who has been associated with Mr. Camp considers him an affable, easy-to-get-along-with...