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...miners carrying banners attest to the human consequences. Ten years ago, the 225 million tons of coal that Britain mined each year represented 91% of all the energy it consumed; by last year output had dropped to 191 million tons, or 72% of all fuel. All over Europe, from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, coal's share of the power market is growing smaller and smaller...
Even the Socialist-minded governments of Scandinavia, which long clung to the belief that sales taxes put an unfair burden on ordinary wage earners, are changing their ways...
Europe's Biggest. This week the Kockums yard in Malmö will deliver the largest ship ever built in Scandinavia, the tanker Esso Lancashire (81,150 deadweight tons). At the Eriksberg yard in Göteborg, workers are laying the keel for the largest ship ever built in Europe, a 92,750-ton Socony Mobil tanker...
...record for the outdoor two-mile (8 min. 29.8 sec.) and the indoor mile (3 min. 58.9 sec.), as well as the American record for 1,500 meters, 3,000 meters and 5,000 meters. By this week, as he wound up a triumphal tour of France, England and Scandinavia, European track fans were willing to concede that Beatty can go the distance as well as anyone...
Antonius Block, a disillusioned knight, returns from the Crusades with his cynical squire just as the bubonic plague is devastating Scandinavia. When Death suddenly appears to claim him, Block proposes they play a game of chess to decide the fate of his soul. He is thus able to forstall his doom, so that he and the squire can wander through the ravaged countryside and closer to home as the game progresses. Along the way they encounter Medieval life in all its variety--from a young girl destined for the stake for witchcraft, to a family of simple traveling actors, significantly...