Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SONGS OF SCANDINAVIA (London). Birgit Nilsson, the Swedish farmer's daughter, puts aside the superhuman passions of Wagner's Valhalla to sing most expressively some quiet love songs and mystic reveries about the fir forests, mists and dripping rocks of Scandinavia. Seven songs are by Sibelius, three by Grieg, and four by the little-known Swedish songwriter and symphonist, Ture Rangstr...
Relations between sport fishermen and their commercial cousins have never been exactly cordial. Lately they have been strained to the breaking point. No longer satisfied with harvestIng such traditional "meat" fish as cod, halibut, salmon and the smaller tunas, commercial fishermen from Japan, Scandinavia and Russia have now invaded the world's best sport-fishing areas with superefficient methods that devastate the population of rare game fish. In the once renowned waters off New Zealand's Mayor Island, where 900 big fish-swordfish, striped and black marlin -were boated in 1949, not a single billfish of any size...
That point is a particularly sore one with American, since it is the only transcontinental U.S. airline that does no business overseas, having given up routes to Scandinavia and West Germany in 1950. "If we had been four times smarter than we were," says American Chairman C. R. Smith, "we might have seen in 1950 what the Marshall Plan would do, and we would have anticipated the European boom." Moreover, American has recently lost out on applications for some lucrative domestic routes, notably Miami-Los Angeles, has added only one major nonstop route, New York-San Francisco, in six years...
...have heard of the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but from where do the poor get the right to a TV set, a car and 89? meat? If we use as a model socialist Scandinavia or Communist Russia, the poor will have luxuries at the expense of the liberty of taxpayers who have earned these luxuries...
...whose per capita annual income averages $70. In southern Italy and Sicily, thousands of nullatenenti (havenots) live in caves or open trenches. Poverty is too soft a word to describe the puffed stomachs that are common sights in India, Africa and Brazil's northeast. On the other hand, Scandinavia knows nothing like American slums, and Soviet Russia can claim to have abolished the crasser forms of poverty-but only by imposing on the whole nation a way of life that most Americans today would equate with privation...