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...PRICE EUROPEAN HOTELS. Construction of accommodations in Europe is becoming such a profitable investment that U.S. money built $30 million worth of hotels last year in Amsterdam alone. Hotel rooms in most price categories are very tight in Athens, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dubrovnik, Geneva, Helsinki, London, Moscow, Prague, Salzburg, Stockholm, Vienna, Warsaw and Zurich. In almost every other top city, they are just plain tight. Prices have risen about 10% since last year. A double room with bath in a good hotel ranges from a low of $7 in Lisbon and $10 in Munich...
Died. Ejnar Mikkelsen, 90, Danish explorer and author; in Copenhagen. Mikkelsen first indulged his zeal for polar exploration at the age of 16 by walking 320 miles from Stockholm to Göteborg in an unsuccessful attempt to join an Arctic balloon flight. Later he captured world attention by leading the 1906 Anglo-American polar expedition, a two-year journey that established the fact that there is no land directly north of Alaska. Between 1909 and 1912, Mikkelsen led a mission in search of the diaries of another brave Dane, Mylius-Erichsen, who had died while exploring the northeast corner...
...Divorce. If the lockout of men engaged in the nation's defense boggled outside observers, it little surprised Swedes. Military officers enjoy the right to negotiate as a union and to take strike action (though they have never done so). Stockholm's morning newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet, published a wry cartoon showing a large billboard inscribed with what it called a message from the Minister of Defense: "It is forbidden to engage in war against Sweden during the lockout." Meanwhile, Defense Minister Sven Andersson assured critics that key men in defense posts would be exempt from the lockout...
...work. Passenger trains were stopped throughout the country, and huge traffic jams clogged urban areas as people turned to buses and private autos. Airlines were slowed because half the meteorologists were out; so were boats plying Sweden's rocky coastline because 185 of 400 pilots stopped working. In Stockholm's largest court, only nine of 80 prosecutors reported for work. As imported products piled up in warehouses, some industries laid off workers for lack of raw materials. One young biologist, who was writing a doctoral thesis on the genetics of fruit flies, was locked out of Stockholm...
Lettvin also said that an Intercommunal Tribunal will be convened in Stockholm, Sweden in late. March to discuss Seale's trial...