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...though, made it all worthwhile. In a good year, Sandefjord's seamen earned more in six months than a landlubber could in a year. The other six months they spent working their gardens and painting their houses, until Sandefjord (pop. 6,000) gained a reputation as one of Scandinavia's prettiest towns...
...just used their veto at Brussels to reject a preferential-tariff proposal that would have opened the way for Britain's eventual inclusion in the Common Market. As a result, the West Germans were now thinking about organizing a Common Market that would include Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia but omit France, if necessary. Some Germans were also contemplating the creation of a unified European defense force, another idea that French intransigence blocked back in 1954. Inadvertently, the Soviets were rendering Western Europe an important and perhaps historic service by turning attention once more to the need for some sort...
...Party three years ago, and Denmark followed suit by unseating its Social Democrats last January, Swedish opposition leaders thought they perceived a trend to the right, and smugly expected Sweden to move in the same direction. The trend proved more apparent than real, since nowhere has any part of Scandinavia's all-embracing welfare system been repealed. Sweden's opposition parties, in fact, promised bigger and better welfare payments, compulsory unemployment insurance and lower rents on new housing...
...first casualty is dignity; the sec ond, humanity; the last, life itself. In 1890, out of the remembered pangs of his own despairing struggle with dep rivation, Norwegian Nobel Prizewin ner Knut Hamsun wrote an acrid au tobiographical novel. Two generations later, Scandinavia's moviemakers have finally caught up with Hunger-and surpassed...
...President will need a brand-new scenario, and some of the ideas tossed around would do credit to DeMille. Why not fly off, after the November election, to Africa? Then to Moscow to sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and coo with Kosygin in the Kremlin. Next, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and tea with Harold Wilson for old time's sake. A final fling in Asia, L.BJ.'s personal preserve, and then a philosophic valedictory designed to galvanize the nation into thinking about its duties at home and abroad...