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...known to her countrymen as "the sad one." Her sadness began in 1951, when her father, King Olaf V, himself a topnotch sailor, searched for a good hand to sail in Sunday regattas with his daughter. On deck soon came a prosperous Oslo clothier, Johan Martin Ferner, one of Scandinavia's most eligible bachelors but. alas, a commoner. The pair became discreetly inseparable. In 1953 Astrid's older sister, Princess Ragnhild, married a shipowner and sailed off to Rio de Janeiro. Convinced that one commoner in the royal family was enough, Olaf set his foot down, insisted that...
...their global good-will tour, Thailand's jazz-loving King Bhumibol and his charming Queen Sirikit arrived in Scandinavia, made an instant hit with the populace. A highlight of their visit was an escorted tour of the old theater in Sweden's summer palace in Drottningho'm. Their escort: Sweden's King Gustav VI Adolf, whose eyes sparkled a reflection of Sirikit's exotic beauty. In Rome last week, Sirikit wowed local newsmen, who all played eulogistic variations on the theme of "the most beautiful Queen in the world." No slouch in winning popularity...
Traditionally, the Socialists of Britain and West Germany have talked the old-fashioned language of nationalizing nearly everything, and nearly always lose elections; the Socialists of Scandinavia scarcely mention the word nationalization, promise plenty of welfare benefits to everybody, and always win. Last week the Socialists of Sweden, who in 28 years' rule have left 90% of the country's economy in private hands, were returned to office for an eighth straight time, and by an increased popular vote...
Four shows were bought last fall by stations in Scandinavia and Germany; the program has also been sold in Australia and Canada. Now sold at last in the U.S.-but only in five cities-the series is mainly dramatic, ranging from John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea to adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart and Shirley Jackson's coldly disturbing The Lottery. A play called The Gunfighter sends the average western up in gun smoke as it concentrates with the tension of High Noon on the 30 minutes that precede...
...delta-wing supersonic bomber, to which NATO recently gave the code name Bounder, appears to match the U.S.'s 6-58 Hustler; the new plane is presumed to be even more advanced. Soviet forces have been energetically improving and expanding far northern airbases from the Kola Peninsula near Scandinavia to the Chukotski Peninsula opposite Alaska. Crews of some 1,000 medium Badger bombers and 200 heavy Bisons have been training hard at airborne refueling operations, are currently rated on a par with U.S. SAC crews. Some of these planes have been seen landing on floating ice islands, which...