Word: norwegian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ploy backfired when two of the witnesses escaped their security chaperons and took refuge with the Norwegian delegation to the Council. Next day, Pantelis Marketakis, 33, and Konstantine Meletis, 38, testified before the commission, and later related to the press what they had said...
...after day, Industrialist Anders Jahre, 77, padded about his red brick mansion on a hill above the Norwegian town of Sandefjord and brooded over a decision he had to make. As he gazed down at the harbor of Norway's biggest whaling port, Jahre knew that there was only one way his decision could go. Finally, and sadly, Norway's last active whaling-fleet owner passed the word...
...season. In a good year, the catch of whales can return many times that amount in meat and oil. But despite the efforts of an international whaling commission, whalers have so depleted the Antarctic that catches today are uneconomically small. Ten years ago, factory ships sent to sea by Norwegian owners processed 905,000 barrels of oil from 31,000 whales in one season. Last year the country's ships were able to bring back only 80,500 barrels from 15,000 whales, which now run quite a bit smaller than they used...
...Special Breed of Men. Norwegian whalers first sailed into the Antarctic in 1904; for years after that, their voyages sounded like something out of Herman Melville. The trip to the whaling grounds took a tedious four weeks. The seas were awesome and the food terrible. Even seasoned sailors were sick much of the time. Once the hunt began, they had to face not only danger from harpooned whales but also the nauseating stench of whale processing. The returns, though, made it all worthwhile. In a good year, Sandefjord's seamen earned more in six months than a landlubber could...
Shankar should know. After the Beatles introduced the resonant sound of the stringed sitar to rock in Norwegian Wood (1965) and their imitators began twanging along, Shankar suddenly found himself the hero of the pop, hippie and fashion worlds. Then, just as suddenly, the fad passed. The teeny-boppers returned to their Bee Gees, and the hippies began playing Erik Satie at their acid parties. Though dismayed by the abruptness of it all, Shankar realized that it was probably just as well. With good reason. Horror of horrors, he confided, "they took me for a pop musician...