Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neighborly cooperation is a Nordic tradition, and Scandinavia's parliamentary representatives meet annually to coordinate their countries' laws. Doctors or teachers can practice anywhere in Scandinavia. Citizens move freely across borders, and criminals sentenced in another country can even serve their jail terms in their homeland. Now, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland are moving to carry their friendship a step further by creating Nordek-a Nordic economic community...
...participants. The Norwegians hope that Nordek will stabilize prices for their troubled fishing industry, which is suffering from growing competition. The Danes look to it for ways to reduce their staggering farm surpluses. The Finns see Nordek as a means of strengthening their commercial ties with the rest of Scandinavia and reducing their uneasy dependence on the Soviet Union. As for the Swedes, they see it as a way of broadening their powerful industrial base and moving deeper into the Russian market by way of Finland...
...What kind of women become highly motivated and why? Some studies currently underway are: woman's role (a survey of married women in suburban Boston); changes in female students' attitudes from freshman to senior year (a survey at Cornell); women in medicine (a study in Great Britain, France, and Scandinavia). The Institute communicates its research findings through publications, extensive correspondence with other educators, conferences, and counseling...
...pediatrics at Montreal's McGill University, said that the application of knowledge that is now available would reduce the infant-mortality rate in America by 50%. That would give the U.S. the lowest rate of any major nation. It now ranks 14th, behind New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Scandinavia and most other countries of Western Europe...
...journalist, says Clark, he worked for newspapers in St. Joseph, Mo., St. Louis and Washington, D.C., before joining TIME'S Chicago bureau in 1962. Since then, his assignments have taken him to Britain, Scandinavia, Africa, Canada and all over the U.S. But his only exposure to the sort of unpleasantness he has found in Viet Nam came in Oxford, Miss. "That was in the fall of 1962, when I cringed behind Doric columns at 'Ole Miss' to avoid Confederate fusillades unleashed to protest the enrollment of James Meredith...