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Self-described as "a healthy-looking Scandinavian," she grew up near Salina, Kans., earned three degrees, including a doctorate in educational psychology, and a Phi Beta Kappa key from the University of Kansas. A Kansas high school teacher, then a math instructor at the university, Miss Peterson served as dean of women at both Kansas and Wisconsin before becoming Wisconsin President Fred Harrington's special assistant and university dean for student affairs in 1963. At Wisconsin, she is widely respected as a champion of student rights. "It's remarkable how we can discuss policy for the university...
...Matson Roth, a millionaire San Francisco shipping executive who succeeded the late Christian Herter early this year as chief U.S. negotiator, angrily threatened to break off negotiations and return to Washington. That impasse, which might well have doomed the Kennedy Round to failure, was resolved when Nils Montan, chief Scandinavian negotiator, persuaded Roth and the Common Market's Rey to lunch with him at the Geneva Intercontinental Hotel. Over filet mignon de veau and a bottle of 1962 Chāteau Capbern St. Estéphe, tempers cooled. Roth promised to stay in Geneva; Rey agreed to quit stalling...
...curriculum, most of the class lauded the school. "What I have learned here," said West German Banker Dietrich Herzog, "is that European integration is not only possible but absolutely necessary. Of all Europeans, the French need this sort of exposure the most." Said Norwegian Leif Kristoffersen, production manager of Scandinavian Airlines System: "I had always considered Spain a very rigid and autocratic country. But from what the two Spaniards here say, it simply cannot be that sort of place." Such understanding is roughly what Héreil had in mind all along. "We want to make business more human...
...Lung period. In the interim he has bought about 2,400 objects for his collection which he works at with as much archaeological curiosity as artistic love. Even the dog he gave the late Queen Louise is a Pekinese named Eisei, and she laps water from a modern Scandinavian imitation of an ancient Chinese stoneware bowl placed on a square of Chinese carpet in the palace's museum room...
...first year, they would take a study in historical and descriptive linguistics, possibly in a course offered under the General Education program. The second part of the requirement could be fulfilled with a literature course like "Classics of the Far East," the "Narrative in Oral Literature," or the "Modern Scandinavian Novel...