Word: scandinavia
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...diligent reporter, Donald Connery set out in subsequent years (first as a TIME correspondent and later as freelance writer) to learn more. His chief conclusion, and the thesis of this lively book, is that Scandinavia really does I not exist as an entity at all. Denmark. Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, while having much in common, are distinctly different in temperament and outlook, and are fiercely determined to stay that...
...study of Scandinavia, Manhattan Psychoanalyst Dr. Herbert Hendin found some significant clues. Norwegians, who are less emotionally dependent and less repressed than their neighbors, average less than half the suicide rate of Sweden and Denmark. Dr. Hendin found Swedes bottled up emotionally, extremely ambitious, and prone to despair and self-aggression when their goals have not been achieved. In Denmark, Hendin declared, mothers control the behavior of their children by making them feel guilty; hence, suicide in Denmark, he theorized, is typically motivated by the attempt to establish guilt in a love object...
...happens if war breaks out during the annual negotiations for a new contract? A 60-day cooling-off period? In officers' mess halls throughout West Germany, the whole idea still produces shudders of horror. After all, the only other unionized armies in Europe are those of Austria and Scandinavia...
...Wozchod bank, financing exports from Switzerland, Italy, West Germany and Scandinavia, will thus parallel the activities of Russian banks already established in the West. The biggest of these is the Narodny Bank of London, established in 1911 and now the busy occupant of an eight-story building in London's City. The Narodny bank does 90% of its business in East-West trade transactions, discounts (at a fat commission) bills of sale of Western exporters who have shipped East; by doing so, it saves them a three-to six-month wait for money and makes trade with the East...
...spend much more on rapidly rising populations. Despite the recently lower birth rate, Dr. Philip M. Hauser, a University of Chicago population expert, reported last week that the U.S. can count on 65 million more Americans by 1985-an increase equal to the combined present populations of England and Scandinavia...