Word: scandinavianism
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...ranks high in affluence: a $12,200 a year median income in 1968. Yet Evanston's 80,000 population includes over 1,600 people on welfare, as well as top-salaried executives and professional men. The ethnic majority is still basically Northern European-English, German and Scandinavian-but there are Poles, Luxembourgers, Russians, Canadians, Armenians, Orientals, blacks...
...Aboard a Scandinavian Airlines flight from Oslo to Copenhagen last month. Borten handed a document marked for-trolig (confidential) to another passenger, saying: "This is interesting. Read it." The document was a report indicating that the European Economic Community would probably balk at the special terms Norway demands as a condition of its entry into the Common Market. The other passenger was Norway's leading Common Market opponent, Arne Haugestad, head of a pressure group called the People's Resistance Movement Against Membership in the EEC. "For your private information," Borten cautioned as he gave the paper...
...these qualifications. Nonetheless, a number of men are being actively discussed: > U.N. Ambassador Max Jakobson of Finland. An able, easygoing diplomat, Jakobson, 47, has won high marks from most Arab delegates for his fairness on the Middle East conflict, but he is Jewish. Moreover, he would be the third Scandinavian-and white man-to be Secretary-General...
...Nora's husband, Torvald Helmer, Donald Madden is an excellent foil. His blond Scandinavian looks, his slightly mannered stuffiness, arrogance and condescension all contribute to a solid and coherent character. He conveys just the inflexible sense of property and propriety that is so necessary to the role. There is no falling off in the rest of the cast-in Nora's worldly wise friend (Patricia Elliott) or in the doctor (Roy Shuman), who is paying mortally for the sins of his father, or in the unscrupulous moneylender (Robert Gerringer), who is trying to keep a slippery foot...
...nudes and a blessed absence of Hefnerian philosophizing. Playmen still bears an outward resemblance to its U.S. forebear. Its centerpiece Girl of the Month folds out. while all about her lie layers of fiction, more-or-less serious articles and satellite layouts of film stars on sheets and Scandinavian beauties in saunas...