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...garaging even in the Nordic winter. To dramatize this sturdiness. Volvo (Latin for "I roll") promises Swedish buyers that it will repair accident damage free during the first five years of a car's life. Saab tests its cars by subjecting them to the subArctic climate of Lapland, once rolled a car (with driver) down a Norwegian ski slope to demonstrate its safety features...
...Cabinet. Without mentioning Russia, political advertisements boldly warned that a vote for the Communists was a vote for "dictatorship." Newspapers and broadcasters loudly urged "sofa loungers" to get out and vote, since a light turnout would only aid the efficiently mobilized Communist Party. The Reds fought hard: in northernmost Lapland, the Communists cornered almost all the local taxis to shuttle their supporters to the polls...
...bench or behind bars, may differ-the book commits no editorial high crimes, merely misdemeanors involving disproportion, inconsistency, British bias, together with some doubtless conscious sins of omission. If it fails to canvass its subject from A to Z (the last entry stops at Y), or from Lapland to Patagonia (it mostly treats Britain, the U.S. and Europe), or from hokus to strychnine (it wholly neglects weapons and poisons), its range is considerable, its writing often sprightly. Edited by a former chief of Scotland Yard, with contributors (almost all English) extending from Ian Fleming and J. Edgar Hoover to Alan...
Professor Curie comes from the University College of Ghana where he was Professor of Education and head of the Department of Education. Previously, he spent three years in Pakistan as a consultant to the Ford Foundation-Harvard Pakistan Project in Economic Planning. His foreign experience also includes service in Lapland, the Sudan and the Middle East. Last summer he was social and economic adviser to the government of Bhutan...
FROM speedy new quadrupod jets and slower prop planes, from fast liners and converted wartime Victory ships, 500,000 Americans will land in Europe this summer in the greatest tourist invasion in history. With curiosity and half a billion in cash, they will wander from the all-night-sun Lapland, north of the Arctic Circle, to the stoned isles of the Aegean. Some will tramp through cathedrals, others will look for the high life, and many will exhaust themselves trying to combine some of both. But Americans in Europe in 1960 are in for some surprises...