Word: scandinavian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FIRST NORTH-POLE FLIGHTS from Europe to Asia will start in February, cut 10,300-mile Stockholm-Tokyo hop to 8,000 miles, trim flying time from about 49 hours to 31 hours. Scandinavian Airlines System, which pioneered polar route between-Copenhagen and California, will fly two Far East round trips weekly over pole, make refueling stop at Anchorage...
...power . . . should be approximately the same as that from coal-or oil-fired stations in the United Kingdom." Plowden also sketched a timetable for commercial nuclear power in other parts of the world, foresaw its arrival in France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain and South Australia in the early 1960s. Scandinavian countries in the 1970s. Russia and the U.S., added Plowden. "will have a number of 'power demonstration' stations in operation by 1960, but with their large energy resources, the needs of these two countries for commercial nuclear electricity in the 1960s should be limited to a few special...
...grey-tonsured lawyer who has spent 16 years as a reform councilman, reform mayor of Seattle and governor. At 56, he is ending his third gubernatorial term, the longest any governor has served in the 67-year history of the Evergreen State. Like many Washingtonians, he is of Scandinavian descent, with the blue eyes and sharp nose of his ancestors. His manner is easy and sincere; his smile is warm. But the keystone of his character is a deep, uncompromising religious faith...
Good-Time Maggie. Heavyset, handsome Warren Grant Magnuson, 51, is in many ways Langlie's exact opposite. Maggie Magnuson (who says privately of Langlie's piety: "We better watch that guy at Easter time") is a cigar-puffing, Cadillackadaisical, free-roaming bachelor. Like Langlie, he has a Scandinavian background. But there the similarity ceases. A Washingtonian who knows both sums up the difference: "Art Langlie is the right-living, stern-conscienced, Sunday-go-to-meeting Scandinavian. Maggie is the ever-loving, good-time-Charlie Scandinavian come out of the woods on Saturday night for fun and sociability...
POLAR AIR ROUTES are in prospect for T.W.A. and Pan American. With Scandinavian Airlines already making polar runs and Lufthansa and BOAC slated to start soon, CAB will probably certify two U.S. lines in late summer...