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...Sweden. The cross-country had been switched to Rumford, Me. in the search for deep snow. After shuttling 275 miles by bus and auto, Slaattvik, Hasu and 67 others took off at Rumford in a biting wind. Although nine nations were represented, it was strictly a Scandinavian show. First place went to a skinny, 145-Ib. Swedish store clerk named Karl-Erik Aaström. He poled through the drifts in 1 hr. 6 min. 16 sec. to become the world's individual 18-kilometer champion...
...there is any actual experience of the working of Socialist governments in parliamentary democracies, the evidence seems to point the other way. Instead of the Socialist machine accelerating in a grim geometric progression towards an infinity of state control, the British and Scandinavian models seem to have some inner friction or contradiction which soon brings them to a halt...
...start Anderson joined the Army. His study of languages finally had a practical result when the Army made him assistant chief of its Scandinavian desk at Washington. Among other things, he had to monitor broadcasts in Reykjavik, Iceland...
...Composing is all right," Anderson states, "but it has one drawback. It's hard to get started, and the composer has to eat in the meantime." This was one reason why, after completing one year of graduate work in music, and getting an A.M., he decided to switch to Scandinavian Languages, intending to become a teacher. During the next four years he tutored music at Radcliffe, played tuba and string bass in Boston-area orchestras, returned to the Band as director and arranger, and, of course, studied. "I even learned Icelandic," he says. It was in this period...
...with one of the lowest VD rates of any nation (Scandinavian countries are lower), loses $100 million a year in industry man-days because...