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...Back in Scandinavia. Operating on a typically tight Hearst budget, Mrs. Brown has an editorial staff of 21. But they all throw themselves into her crusade. "I never have to compromise in my work," says Art Director Lene Bernbom, 24, a Danish blonde who joined the magazine in 1966. "Suddenly," she adds, "I'm like back in Scandinavia. Suddenly, I'm working...
Pity & Wonder. Though French matrons outnumbered those from other countries, many stores reported that hundreds of customers were flying in from Belgium, The Netherlands, West Germany, Scandinavia, and even Portugal and Poland. One U.S. boutique owner crossed the Atlantic to buy mod dresses on sale for $3.60, figuring that their London labels would enable her to charge $30 for them at home. Marveled the Daily Mail: "London has become an Anglo-Saxon version of an Eastern bazaar, where Continentals admire our traditional quality, pity our poverty, wonder aloud how we can do it at the price, and pay in currencies...
...grandfather of anti-alcohol legislation is Scandinavia, which has reined in schnapps-happy drivers for years-with mixed results. Swedes are taught from the cradle up that booze and an auto do not mix, yet one in five drivers still risks arrest by taking the wheel after drinking. About 7,000 a year go for one to twelve months to special prisons, including one outside Stockholm that is known as "the country club" because of the high social caliber of its inmates. In Denmark, where the number of arrests of drunken drivers has been increasing sharply, police are introducing breath...
Flight test. Intrigued by his son's observation, Jensen passed it on to Ramskou, who immediately recognized its scientific implication. Enlisting the aid of Denmark's royal-court jeweler, the archaeologist collected minerals found in Scandinavia whose molecules are all aligned parallel to each other, just as the crystals are in a Polaroid filter. Ramskou found that one of these minerals, a transparent crystal called cordierite, turned from yellow to dark blue whenever its natural molecular alignment was held at right angles to the plane of polarized light from the sun. Thus, he reasoned, a Viking could have...
Massed Choirs. They were remarkable radicals, for they had a sense of humor and a singing voice. Many of their songs-Casey Jones, Joe Hill, Solidarity Forever-are still heard. Their goal was one big worldwide trade union, and eventually they established branches from Australia to Scandinavia...