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...Franco and Salazar, as for Britain and Scandinavia, the problem was whether they could afford to remain outside the Common Market (a super-customs union of France, West Germany, Italy and Benelux). If Spain and Portugal join, they are likely to be swamped with tariff-free industrial imports, cheaper and better than comparable products of their own; if they stay out, French and Italian farmers and merchants, operating behind the Common Market customs wall, may take away the European markets for such Spanish and Portuguese products as citrus fruits, cork, wine, sardines and pyrite...
FIRST POLAR FLIGHTS by U.S. airlines will start this fall. Pan American and T.W.A. will fly over the polar region from Los Angeles and San Francisco to Europe, while Pan Am will also fly via pole from Seattle and Portland, Ore. Scandinavia's SAS now is only line operating over polar route...
Today "Madman" Munch is recognized as Scandinavia's most powerful artist, one of the key founders of German expressionism, second in power only to Vincent Van Gogh, and on a par with Toulouse-Lautrec as a graphic artist. His work was first shown on a major scale in the U.S. seven years ago (TIME, May 1, 1950) ; the second major retrospective has already been an outstanding hit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art and Minneapolis' Institute of Arts, will travel over the coming twelvemonth to Chicago, Cincinnati and San Francisco...
...even doubt, in many cases, whether the children of mentally defective parents are themselves mentally defective because of the unfavorable background of their early life or because of defective genes. In the U.S. 28 states have laws permitting sterilization for the mentally ill or defective confined in institutions. In Scandinavia the situation is notably different. Denmark has the most aggressive program of sterilization for persons (whether in institutions or not) believed likely to produce defective offspring, and in London's Eugenics Review Professor Tage Kemp of Copenhagen spells out how the plan works...
From Uncooked Fish. Another tapeworm partial to humans, Diphyllobothrium latum, is acquired by eating uncooked fish. It is common in Scandinavia, where raw fish livers are considered a delicacy. In some parts of Finland, 80% of the people are infected...