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...their biological role in birth and feeding." The baby bottle has freed women from some of the tasks of that role, but, says University of Michigan Psychologist Judith Bardwick, "the major responsibility for child rearing is the woman's, even in the Soviet Union, the Israeli kibbutz, Scandinavia and mainland China...
...that still worse times were ahead for 1972. In large part because of President Nixon's defense of the dollar, which has made U.S. goods more competitive abroad and foreign-made goods more expensive in the U.S., similar setbacks have befallen Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands and parts of Scandinavia. Almost the sole exception is France. In a time of worldwide economic uncertainty, the French have managed to engineer their own economic liftoff...
...Wienerwald restaurants, which have spread across Europe and into the U.S., he works to satisfy a hungry middle class. The chain grossed $115 million last year and should do at least 10% better this year. Last month Jahn opened new outposts in Vienna and Nuremberg; he plans others in Scandinavia, Britain and South Africa. "I wouldn't be surprised," he says, "if one day there is a Wienerwald in Nigeria or Kenya...
...Danish Physicist Theory takes its name from the fact that, in the past 20 to 30 years, an unusually high number of physic?? from Scandinavia-and other Northern European countries-have received Harvard's honorary So. D. According to the theory, you can break down recipients of honoraries into several different categories, and then proceed to make your guesses...
...scale. Selling out Czechoslovakia with its 35 trained and ready divisions cut the heart out of effective opposition to Hitler in Central Europe. Allied military planners, on Liddell Hart's evidence, were little better than the politicians. He credits them with inviting Hitler's invasion of Scandinavia with loudly proclaimed plans to mine Norwegian ports and cut off the flow of iron ore from Sweden. Sir Basil thinks somewhat more highly of the German generals. But even they, he admits, succeeded in their dramatic 1940 breakthrough on the Western front partly by accident. Their initial plan...