Word: scandinavian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the fictitious situation set for Operation Mainbrace, NATO's first big naval exercise. Mainbrace was conceived last year by General Eisenhower to convince NATO's Scandinavian members (Norway and Denmark) that their lands can be defended in the event of war with Russia. One morning last week, 85 men-of-war (including the U.S. carriers Midway, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wasp, the Royal Navy carrier Eagle and battleship Vanguard) steamed in stately grey lines out of the Firth of Clyde. On the F.D.R.'s bridge, Skipper George W. Anderson made an announcement...
...situation, 300 delegates from 25 lands gathered in Paris last week for the 24th International Congress Against Alcoholism. Flower-hatted old teapots from English vicarages, prune-juice-quaffing prohibitionists representing teetotalers from Finland to Madagascar, they seemed to divide into two categories: 1) the All-Drys, mainly British and Scandinavian; 2) the Half-Wets, preponderantly French...
...Werner von Grundherr, Bonn's Ambassador to Greece, had also served Ribbentrop as chief of the Scandinavian desk, and directed the roundup of Denmark's Jews. Ironically, Grundherr, a Junker, never made the grade as a Nazi Party member; the Nazis rejected his application. He also has already resigned...
...Four days in England, including London, Oxford, Stratford-on-Avon and Warwick Castle; four days in Paris, including a trip to Versailles. Price: $617. ¶ Sabena: Two weeks in Belgium, Holland, England and France, including a motor trip through Holland, excursions to Windsor Castle and Versailles. Price: $642. ¶ Scandinavian: A 23-day tour taking in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Lucerne, Interlaken and Geneva, for $715; also a special two-week trip to Finland's Olympic Games in July...
...France, BOAC, El Al (Israel), Scandinavian, K.L.M. (Dutch), L.A.I. (Italian), Sabena (Belgian), Swissair, Trans Canada...