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...ships by 1990, compared with today's 456. That increase would give the U.S. 15 naval battle groups,** three more than at present. According to Navy Secretary John Lehman, it would permit the U.S. to challenge the Soviet navy even in the northern seas between Iceland and Scandinavia...
...culture as spectacle, "The Vikings" does not offer much. The argument it mounts really belongs to a book, not an exhibition, and it is far better done by the catalogue, which is a model of serious, popular historical reconstruction. In the museum, the objects, drawn from national collections in Scandinavia, England, Ireland and elsewhere, seem overcome by the pomp of their display: case after beautifully lighted case, spread wide out to allow for crowd passage, each enshrining its sparse array of broken pins and chipped beads. In this way the socially interesting small change of archaeology is implicitly promoted...
Along with the reported $60,000 Scandinavia's SAS Airlines paid him last year for wearing their logo on his sleeve, came free first-class air passage on SAS for him and discount fares for his parents. Donnay racquets of Belgium, which is paying him around $600,000 a year plus a commission on each Borg model racquet sold, also must provide the star with the 30 or so $75 racquets he takes with him to tournaments. In Australia, he endorses Bancroft racquets for another $90,000 or so a year and all the racquets he can break. Fila...
...Even in Scandinavia, where government control has been pervasive and popular, citizens in recent elections have called for less of it. After 44 years in office, Sweden's Socialists were voted out in 1976, and last year they were again defeated. Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland have all moved to the center in their latest elections...
...inequality of wealth under the free enterprise system is the unavoidable price that must be paid for genius, hard work or plain luck. The equality of results demanded by many leftist reformers would stultify society; complete equality can only be enforced by dictatorship. Income-leveling experiments in Britain and Scandinavia have proved that an economy without reward for success produces social entropy. There is little incentive for anyone to do more than the minimum necessary to maintain his own standard of living. Argued Winston Churchill: "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue...