Word: copenhagen
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Last week at an international meeting in Copenhagen, cancer specialists reported promising though very preliminary new data on a valuable weapon in their chemical arsenal. It is the drug tamoxifen, and it should be especially useful in treating those women whose cancer has spread beyond the breast. Said Dr. Charles Hubay of Cleveland's University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine: "Chemotherapy and tamoxifen administered immediately following mastectomy were more effective than chemotherapy alone in delaying recurrence of cancer...
Motzfeldt, who led "Greenland for Greenlanders" demonstrations in Copenhagen in the 1960s, demanded full control of all resources, known and undiscovered. The Danes were shocked, but eventually agreed in principle, although the exact scope of the resource rights remains to be spelled out. "We are satisfied so far," Motzfeldt told TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs in Godthaab. "But we will not be pushovers for outsiders, Danes included. It is an exciting time. We must develop a modern society without ruining our environment and way of life...
After 258 years, home rule finally came to the world's largest island last week. Denmark's Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik made the five-hour flight from Copenhagen to Greenland's Søndre Strømfjord airport, helicoptered another two hours to Godthaab, the tiny (pop. 10,000) capital, and handed over the autonomy decree, bound in red leather, to the 21-member parliament. The royal couple then trudged through a May Day sleet storm to the 125-year-old Godthaab church for a short Lutheran service. After a Danish patrol boat boomed...
Skip the Ritz. Bypass London, Paris, Rome, Madrid, Munich, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Athens. Head for the byways. Seek out country inns, auberges, Gasthăuser, bedsitters, farms, pensions, pousadas and paradores. This is the year of the offbeat, off-beaten-track European vacation...
...Copenhagen and Zurich: Personal Reminiscences of Bohr and Pauli--Hendrik B.G. Casimir, president emeritus, Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, Science Center...