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Given this go-ahead from the world's top trading nation, other European nations followed suit. In rapid succession, West Germany, Italy, the Scandinavian countries and the Benelux nations all proclaimed their currencies externally convertible. (Denmark, responding to the drama of the occasion, revealed that it was following the British example even before the British treasury set the example...
...Willy Brandt and posing with fake Norwegian papers as a "student," he slipped back into Germany in 1936, worked with the anti-Nazi underground for five months before returning to Norway. Studied history at the University of Oslo, went to Spain during the Civil War as a correspondent for Scandinavian newspapers and representative of Norwegian relief...
...post-Homeric Greek legends of Athene's birth from the head of Zeus, and Dionysus' birth from his thigh." For in all primitive myth, says the Goddess' Graves, "the female, not the male, gives life, even if she is no more than a primordial Scandinavian cow licking stones into human shape...
...making Benson the villain. Even popular Republican Senator Ed Thye is in critical trouble, although running hard on an anti-Benson program. In the Ninth Congressional District, Democrat Coya Knutson is beset with family and factional problems, but is expected to win narrowly over Odin Langen, a big, friendly Scandinavian state representative who should be right down the Ninth's alley. In the Third (near Minneapolis) District, crotchety Democrat Roy Wier always has trouble, always wins, and should again. At least two Republican incumbents are in much worse shape: Albert Quie, whose loss in Minnesota's solid Republican...
Five such parables constitute this new book by Isak Dinesen (real name: Baroness Karen Blixen). All are pleasant, intriguing, and in the trollish Scandinavian vein of Danish Author Dinesen's Winter...