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...profitable Viscount service throughout the Arab world-where air traffic increases 30% annually (world increase: 13%)-and has no ambitions beyond operating as a feeder service. A second solution for small lines would be to merge with others to form one major international unit along the lines of Scandinavia's SAS, which has enough traffic, capital and competitive know-how to survive...
...especially for industry get word lists tailored to the trade; Berlitz-drilled operatives for a large soup company prowled Italy, snooped out a formula for minestrone in fluent culinary Italian. Berlitz spends much of his time abroad, keeping an ear out for language changes, next week will be in Scandinavia plotting a new teach-yourself primer combining Danish, Norwegian and Swedish...
Omen of Hope. Born just one week after the Nazis invaded her country and named after the great 14th century queen who extended her rule throughout Scandinavia, Margrethe's birth was regarded during the somber days of the occupation as an omen of brighter times to come. She grew into a shy but fun-loving little girl who, when asked what she liked best about the private school she was attending, blurted: "All that milling around and pushing and shoving in the corridors...
...eastern seaboard. Patriarch of Lutheranism in the U.S. was the Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, organizer and theologian, who in 1748 formed the first Lutheran Synod in America. In the early 19th century Lutheranism joined the great westward move, swept along by new waves of immigrants from Germany and Scandinavia...
...submarines (some of them missile-armed) are positioned to dominate the far northern approaches to Europe. In time of war the fleet would provide the stronger arm of the naval pincer (the Soviet Baltic fleet is the other) by which the Russians would try to neutralize Scandinavia and challenge Western transatlantic sea lines. It would also serve as a mobile missile base...