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...convenience to passengers and a financial headache to the airlines. Between the high costs of the switchover to jets and the bitter competition for passengers to fill the bigger jets. West Germany's Lufthansa last year lost about $25 million, Scandinavia's SAS about $17 million, and Britain's BOAC at least $28 million. Latest victim of the jet squeeze: The Netherlands' KLM, one of Europe's few privately managed airlines, and long among its most profitable...
...result of Thornbrough's accent on overseas markets has been spectacular: Massey-Ferguson is now No. 1 in farm implement sales in Britain, France and Scandinavia and accounts for virtually the entire tractor market in such emerging nations as Ghana, Ceylon and Nigeria. Thornbrough has also revitalized Massey's U.S. distribution system with aggressive new dealers and installed a centralized computer control system to keep track of spare parts across the continent. M-F has climbed from seventh place in North American implement sales in 1957 to third (after Deere & Co. and International Harvester) today...
Sensible as it is in wintertime, the shapka requires some daring from its wearers. For, though the hat is worn all through Scandinavia as well as in Russia, many Americans associate it with Communism and the cold war. In Manhattan last year, a man in a shapka got on a subway train and sat down, whereupon a woman near by hissed: "Goddam foreigners!" He never wore his shapka again...
...foreigners in the Cape. When one seaman from Sweden was recently sentenced to eight strokes with a police cane for attempting sexual relations with a non-European, his Swedish captain protested angrily: "Cape Town is full of beautiful colored girls who look exactly like southern Europeans to anyone from Scandinavia...
...comes along. Only last week, the West Germans disclosed that Guenter Maennel, a senior official of East Berlin's HVA, had recently sneaked across the boundary, bringing with him details of his espionage unit in East Berlin as well as the names of 14 Communist agents in Africa, Scandinavia and the Middle East...