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...computers are concerned," complained the Czech magazine Kulturní Tvorba, "we are still living in primeval times. We are 50 times worse than the U.S., 15 times worse than West Germany and Scandinavia, ten times worse than Britain, France, Holland and other countries...
...concerned, the only possible way for any American to enjoy Europe is as part of the herd. For their first trip, Olson sends his readers on a 39-day Grand Tour of ten countries, and their second can be only to England, Ireland, Scotland and Scandinavia. If they're still with him after that, he recommends a really daring "off the beaten path" tour to Chartres, Biarritz, Saint-Tropez, Rome and Paris...
What is needed, says the A.M.A., is a thermometer that will not cause injury. But no U.S. manufacturer has yet produced a safer thermometer at an economic price. A safer design, used in Scandinavia, has a slender sensing tip, similar to the American, but then broadens out to a flat shank, thick enough to prevent too deep a penetration. The best the A.M.A. can suggest is that nurses and mothers be instructed in how to insert a thermometer correctly, and told never to leave a child or a debilitated patient alone with the thermometer in place...
...SONGS OF SCANDINAVIA (London). Birgit Nilsson, the Swedish farmer's daughter, puts aside the superhuman passions of Wagner's Valhalla to sing most expressively some quiet love songs and mystic reveries about the fir forests, mists and dripping rocks of Scandinavia. Seven songs are by Sibelius, three by Grieg, and four by the little-known Swedish songwriter and symphonist, Ture Rangstr...
Relations between sport fishermen and their commercial cousins have never been exactly cordial. Lately they have been strained to the breaking point. No longer satisfied with harvestIng such traditional "meat" fish as cod, halibut, salmon and the smaller tunas, commercial fishermen from Japan, Scandinavia and Russia have now invaded the world's best sport-fishing areas with superefficient methods that devastate the population of rare game fish. In the once renowned waters off New Zealand's Mayor Island, where 900 big fish-swordfish, striped and black marlin -were boated in 1949, not a single billfish of any size...