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...Europeans are grateful not only for the chance to have direct contact with Americans, but also to meet other Europeans. As one Stockholm youth put it, "Perhaps Americans believe that people from the different Europeans countries know each other well. At least for me... the knowledge of other European countries outside Scandinavia before the Seminar was very much less...
...until he was 13. After the Bolsheviks took over in Russia, father Rubinstein, according to Serge, lined his greatcoat with rubles and jewels, and raced off across the frozen Gulf of Finland in a troika. The family followed him four months later, and ten-year-old Serge arrived in Stockholm with money pinned all over his undershirt, and a big sapphire hung around his neck...
...Rubinsteins drifted around Europe, from Stockholm to Paris to Vienna. On his 15th birthday Serge decided he had an inferiority complex, asked his parents for an appointment with Dr. Alfred Adler, the famed Viennese psychologist, for a birthday present. Since Adler was a responsible physician, the story that Rubinstein later told seemed one other piece of his self-dramatization. Serge said that Adler offered to cure his neurosis, but added: "Do you want that? You'll just be an ordinary person. The way you are now, you'll be driven by ambition and desires." Serge said he decided...
Died. Hans Hedtoft, 51, Prime Minister of Denmark, chiefly responsible for breaking down his nation's traditional resistance to defense measures and piloting it into NATO; of a heart attack; in Stockholm...
Others found the going even worse. Two French teams, starting from Palermo, ran smack into an avalanche that piled six-foot snow drifts on the narrow Alpine roads. Drivers starting from Oslo and Stockholm shuddered through below-zero cold; inch-thick ice formed on windshields. British drivers leaving Glasgow fought snow, fog and black ice on roads that slowed them down so much that an unhappy few missed the boat from Dover to Boulogne...