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Members of the Travel Department, the National Students Association, the Council on Student Travel, the American Friends Service Committee, the Experiment in International Living, and the Scandinavian Student Travel Service will lead the discussion...
...precocious sovereign who made bright Danish history. Margrethe I became the 10-year-old child bride of King Haakon VI of Norway, assumed the crown of Norway when he died, and, by invitation from the unhappy Swedes, took their crown and merged the three countries into a single Scandinavian kingdom...
From Los Angeles' International Airport one morning last week, a Scandinavian Airlines DC-6B roared up through the smog and headed north. Its destination: Copenhagen, via the Arctic. To trim roughly 650 miles off the regular California-Europe flight distance, the four-engine plane, with 13 crewmen and 22 passengers aboard, was going to fly where no commercial carrier had ever flown. That afternoon the plane stopped at Edmonton, Alta. After touching down early next morning at the big U.S. Air Force base at Thule, Greenland-a scant 900 miles from the North Pole-the plane was soon airborne...
Although the airline has not yet applied for U.S. and Canadian permission to fly the new route on regular schedules, its officials are confident of getting go-aheads. By next spring, they predict, Scandinavian's timetables will list two or three weekly flights over the top of the world...
...Gustav VI Adolf Lecture Fund has been established in honor of Gustav Adolf, King of Sweden, by Gustav von Rois, Detroit industrialist. It will be used for extended teaching in the Scandinavian languages, especially Swedish...