Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dumb show with elegant attitudes and virtuoso movement. In this form it was nourished and preserved by the Russians. But there is one major company which still clings to the older, simpler style: the Royal Danish Ballet. Last week the Royal Danes, making one of their rare visits outside Scandinavia, were at London's Covent Garden...
...tractors, horse teams and the work-blackened fingers of peasant women were gathering in ,what looked like the biggest harvest since World War II. French hillsides teemed with blue and green grapes that sent the price of wine toppling. In Germany, cattle and hogs were plump and plentiful; in Scandinavia, furrows bulged with a splendid crop of potatoes. Everywhere, except in Switzerland, where the spring frosts were harsh, Western Europe's harvest waxed fat and mellow, promising its people that next winter none need starve...
...doomed. The center, caught between the stridencies of right & left, and forced to choose, would have to go left. Communists and Socialists had made a name in the undergrounds and concentration camps. And in the end, Socialism, the wave of the future, would triumph, as it had in Scandinavia long before, and in Britain only recently...
Royalty from all Scandinavia gathered in Stockholm to celebrate the 70th birthday of King Gustaf Adolf of Sweden. Among the special events: a gift contributed by his subjects, a check for 5,000,000 kroner ($966,500), which the King said would be used to further Swedish culture; an all-Wagnerian concert by the Royal Court Orchestra, conducted, after shirtsleeved rehearsals, by King Frederik of Denmark...
Career: Veteran career diplomat and topflight economist; joined Foreign Office in 1928, has served since in the U.S., Scandinavia, Africa, the U.N. and as delegate to numberless international conferences as expert on economics and North American affairs; Britain's Deputy Under Secretary of State since 1948; chairman of ten-man council on British atomic policy; Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George since 1949; accompanied both Attlee and Churchill on their recent trips to Washington, where he himself has served a total of five years...