Word: scandinavia
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Valley of the Eagles (Rank; Lippert), filmed largely in northern Scandinavia, is noteworthy for a breathtaking sequence in which Laplanders hunt wolves with giant trained eagles. Almost as dramatic is a reindeer stampede in a blizzard...
Many correspondents anticipated the wires, started gathering reports immediately. London Bureau Chief Andre Laguerre sent wires to 20 stringers (part-time correspondents) in Britain and Scandinavia. He pulled all his correspondents off the stories they were working on, assigned Dave Richardson to watch London developments, stationed Honor Balfour at the House of Commons, called Cynthia Thompson from her home (she had retired from TIME'S London staff six weeks ago) to work on a story about the King's illness for the Medicine section, set Joan Bruce to digging up some of the unusual prerogatives of the British...
...people who watched her snow-clouded rush down the mountainside were all, in a sense, mountaineers. In their world, from the Alps to the hills of Scandinavia, skiing is about the only sport worth mentioning; it is almost a way of life. And last week, with the winter Olympics in Oslo only a month away, it was getting close to the climax of the skier's year. The baggage carrier at St. Anton, the bartender at Klosters, the woodcutter at Sestriere, the gendarme at Chamonix, the hotelkeeper at Oslo were all reading the ski news: the results...
...Denmark-the argument goes-Sweden could not help them by joining NATO, since Sweden is at her peak in armament now. Thus Sweden has a buffer in Finland, and Norway and Denmark have a buffer in Sweden. (Many Swedish military men will privately tell you that the defense of Scandinavia would be stronger if coordinated...
Ilona Karmel has written the longest piece, another installment of her reminiscences of Europe, which are soon to be published as a novel called "Cobbler's Paradise." In this one, we find little Stephania in a hospital in some unspecified part of Scandinavia, shooting the breeze with her Scandinavian comrades and reminiscing over the death of her father at the hands of the Nazis. There are two strands running through the chapter--a rather objectivized analysis of the Jewish conception of death, and a highly subjective narration of the guilt feelings which generally accompany the premature death of a close...