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...Surely the Olympics' most outstanding winners were the real amateurs of Scandinavia. The woodcutters, office clerks, factory workers and farmers of Norway alone won 15 medals, gaining second place after Russia in the overall ratings...
...Matter of Time. Almost half the immigrants-11,000 in the past year-come from Britain, many complaining of the cold weather and unemployment at home; others arrive from Holland, West Germany, Italy, Portugal, Greece and Scandinavia. A second trek to South Africa is under way among whites fleeing African territories being taken over by black nationalists; a bearded Afrikaner who had been farming in Kenya, which won its freedom last month, crossed back into his homeland in his ten-year-old Chevrolet, jumped out, and literally knelt down and kissed the red Transvaal dust. So many whites have migrated...
Unexpected Benefit. An authority on rose growing as well as on banking, Jack Hambro intends henceforth to cultivate fields he knows. Hambros now offers package plans for Scandinavia in which the bank handles all arrangements for British investors from plane tickets to plant location. It is also capitalizing on Britain's exclusion from the Common Market. "The failure to go in," says Hambro, "has created lots of problems we can help solve. We always say our advice is free until somebody makes a profit." Once that happens, Hambros is not too princely to hold out its hand...
...when he treated Konrad Adenauer to a barbecue at the LBJ Ranch or invited a camel driver from Pakistan to come to Washington did Johnson emerge from behind the wall of obscurity that surrounds the vice-President. The brilliant administrator, the manager of Senators has spent his time touring Scandinavia and mending Democratic fences in Texas. The few jobs assigned to him seemed to be sinecures created to give the vice-President something...
...Lucy Baines (16) growing up, the Johnsons provided all comforts. Lady Bird piped Muzak into every room, built a heated $15,000 swimming pool in the backyard, stocked two freezers with enough prime Texas steaks for a regiment. Johnson traveled more than any other Vice President-to Asia, Scandinavia, the Benelux countries, around the world-and Lady Bird always went along...