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Although the company produces table settings capable of competing with Scandinavia's most modern designs, traditional patterns account for over 80% of its business. "We just can't get any interest in our modern designs abroad," says Bryan. The old standbys -earthenware and jasper ware-after about 200 years on the market are still big sellers, and last year helped spur company profits to a 25% rise...
...SCANDINAVIA has opened its salmon-fishing preserves to the public, and sportsmen can buy rights to fish for rates ranging from $35 to $3,000 a week, depending on the richness of the rivers. A placid but entertaining attraction is the "dollar train" from Stockholm to Lapland, a seven-day, $425 railroad cruise through the magnificence of the fiords and mountain country...
Welcome Windfall. The outcome of the new exchange was to reinforce in many parts of the world a growing feeling that Hanoi, probably elbowed by Peking, remains the real obstacle to peace. In Asia, Scandinavia and France, newspapers that had previously regarded Johnson's motives with undisguised skepticism were beginning to change their views. Cambodia's Chief of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who three years ago had fervently welcomed China's embrace while reviling U.S. "imperialism," recently reassured Australian diplomats that he welcomes the U.S. presence in Southeast Asia as a counterweight to Peking. Other Asian leaders...
Prophetic Figure. Appropriately enough, contemporary interest in Luther is proportionate to his direct impact on Protestant Christianity. Of the world's 230 million Protestants, 74.5 million call themselves Lutherans. Although a truly universal church, Lutheranism is strongest in Germany, Scandinavia and the U.S., where it is the third largest Protestant segment (after the Baptists and the Methodists). Three branches of the faith account for most of the nation's 10 million Lutherans: the Lutheran Church in America, the American Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod...
...Germany has also built up its own fleet. Today, its black, red and yellow flag flies over 155 ships. VEB vessels last year carried 6,200,000 tons of cargo to 340 ports, ranging from nearby Hamburg to faraway Haiphong, while two 600-passenger cruise ships carried vacationers to Scandinavia, Scotland and Iceland...