Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foreigners in the Cape. When one seaman from Sweden was recently sentenced to eight strokes with a police cane for attempting sexual relations with a non-European, his Swedish captain protested angrily: "Cape Town is full of beautiful colored girls who look exactly like southern Europeans to anyone from Scandinavia...
...comes along. Only last week, the West Germans disclosed that Guenter Maennel, a senior official of East Berlin's HVA, had recently sneaked across the boundary, bringing with him details of his espionage unit in East Berlin as well as the names of 14 Communist agents in Africa, Scandinavia and the Middle East...
...south from Travemunde, Ulbricht's work gangs are laboring hard to close the remaining gaps in the new wall. At the West German town of Schlutup, a legal crossing point, the East Germans have put on a friendly face for tourists driving into East Germany from Scandinavia. No barbed wire is visible, and the armed guards are stationed some 400 yds. beyond the border. A few yards across the line from Schlutup in East Germany actually lives a West German family. Two young boys wearing soldier caps play on the road, marching solemnly between East and West...
...each standard pornographic novel in chaste green jackets labeled "The Traveler's Companion Series," and invariably sells out at 3.75 francs (75?) a copy. For bulk sales, he finds that the best markets are France and, in descending but inexplicable order, Venezuela, Lebanon, Italy, Greece, Mexico and Scandinavia. Some 25 to 30 new Companions are issued each year, and Girodias figures that at least five people read each copy. "Which makes," he says, flashing the sinister leer, "an average of 600,000 people corrupted every year...
...Ricci calls Switzerland his home, although he is rarely there. One of the most widely traveled concert artists ("If I wake up twice in the same bed, I think it is yesterday"), he departs this week, after 3½ grueling days of recording, for a two-week tour of Scandinavia, plans an additional tour of South Africa and Europe before returning to the U.S. in January for a cross-country series of performances. He still suffers attacks of nerves when he returns to the familiar stage on which he appeared as a child 32 years ago. "I have a recurrent...