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...17th of 18 children of a Norwegian family, a vigorous, outspoken woman who looks years younger than she is (69). She travels all over Sweden by car, train and even on skis to run clinics, advises branch offices and lectures on birth control and sex relations. One of her proudest achievements has been the government decision to teach sex in schools, and she assiduously superintends it. I asked Mrs. Ottesen-Jensen what she teaches the young people. "I tell them that the important thing is that they must be in love," she said. "I tell the girls...
...Caribbean should form a regional coalition to insure their economic and political stability. He was tremendously impressed with U.S. State Department careerists in the countries he visited, came to believe that they are far more capable of administering economic aid than the Foreign Operations Administration. He was perhaps proudest of his success in soothing, at least temporarily, the Central American feud between Nicaragua and Costa Rica...
Spotless & Frugal. N.Z.Z.'s stocky, pink-cheeked Editor Willy Bretscher, 57, who has worked on the paper for 37 years and been its boss for more than 20, is proudest of his daily's fight against Naziism. When a small band of Swiss Nazis began to sing Hitler's praises...
...Garden. The melodramatic plot (of amorous scheming and betrayal in ancient Troy) was lusty, but the heavily sweet music resembled Walton's lyrical Viola Concerto more than his uproarious Belshazzar's Feast. The London Times called it "a great tragic opera," and the Daily Express hailed "the proudest hour for British music since the premiere of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes." Sir William made his own evaluation: "It won't please the highbrows . . . no atonal stuff." Moreover, he liked opera so much that he was off violin sonatas and string quartets for a while. Said...
...battle was touched off by the U.S. Justice Department, which filed an antitrust suit in Manhattan accusing Switzerland's watch cartel and U.S. watch importers of conspiring to control production and fix prices in the U.S. Reaching out across 3,850 miles to name Switzerland's proudest and most respected watchmakers* as coconspirators, the Justice Department charged...