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Story or not, thousands of people crowded the Malls of the Scandinavian countries where indoor facilities were too small for his concerts. "You just have to introduce your songs a little slower, and sing a little slower," he said and probably they don't understand a lot of the words. But still, thirty to forty thousand people every time...
...Mikoyan's name was mentioned in connection with the mysterious "doctors' plot"; in his famed secret speech to the 20th Party Congress, Khrushchev said that Stalin then scathingly "characterized Molotov and Mikoyan" and "evidently had plans to finish them off." After negotiating a trade agreement with one Scandinavian nation, Mikoyan had become a close acquaintance of the country's ambassador, who entertained him frequently. In their family circle Mikoyan relaxed and played parlor games. But in that winter Mikoyan cut his friend and other foreign acquaintances dead...
Milan is in the midst of its most successful Triennale-a once-in-three-years show of industrial arts, dating back to 1907. This year 23 countries are participating, and a total turnout of 300,000 visitors is expected. There is plenty to see: Japanese porcelain. Scandinavian furniture, a geodesic dome designed by the U.S.'s R. Buckminster Fuller. But the show's foremost attraction by far, is a one-man pavilion celebrating the effervescent genius of Milan's own Gio Ponti...
Teachers & Turboprops. Most of Icelandic's passengers are people who, like the line itself, want to make a lot out of a little-Scandinavian-Americans off to visit relatives or settle down in the old country on small pensions, U.S. teachers, clergymen and students whose travel plans are big but funds small. They poke along in unpressurized DC-45 at 8,000 ft., doing 220 to 240 m.p.h. v. 350 m.p.h. for DC-7s. At times, the trips take five hours longer than on other lines. Yet Icelandic's seven-man crews take care to fly around...
Theme of the assembly was "Christ Frees and Unites," and on the stage of the 10,000-seat Minneapolis Auditorium the message was spelled out in the conference's three languages-English, German, Scandinavian. The assembly met each day in plenary session, then split up for separate discussion groups and meetings for visitors-which also included tours of Minnesota farms, a youth rally, a children's festival and $100,000 worth of exhibits on youth work, evangelism, other church activities. Most of all, the Lutherans focused their attention on the great leaders of their faith, who are among...