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German air lanes are crowded not only by private planes and gliders but by the military aircraft of seven air forces: West Germany's own, the U.S., British, French, Dutch, Belgian and Danish. Commercial pilots have charged that fighter planes deliberately use passenger craft as targets for dummy runs, which is like playing chicken at the speed of sound. By refusing to allot more personnel and modern equipment to air traffic control, Bonn is playing a similar game of chicken with passengers' lives...
Keach's Hamlet, in the current New York Shakespeare Festival production at Central Park's Delacorte Theater, is not the brooding surgeon of his agonized soul, not a raging, grieving mourner at the yawning grave of all existence. Instead he is a kind of Danish Willy Loman. He would like to be well-liked at Elsinore. He barely sniffs the stench of corruption at the court but is baffled by the toughness of the territory, as if it were New England. And like Willy Loman, he is virtually humorless, unable to season his despair or get a proper...
Saul Bellow, D. Litt., author. Henry Ford II, LL.D., chairman, Ford Motor Co. In an age when many industrialists look for the riskless course and too many business spokesmen are puppets of their public relations staff, you have remained a thoroughly authentic outspoken man. Piet Hein, L.H.D., Danish scientist and philosopher who invented the Soma Cube, and the "grook...
...paychecks at all; instead, it deposits salaries directly into each employee's bank account. And it makes only four such deposits a year. Workers get 15% of their salary each Feb. 6, May 6, Aug. 6 and Nov. 6 (another 10% is withheld each quarter to pay stiff Danish taxes...
...employee morale too. Workers like the new arrangement because getting their pay in big chunks enables them to buy household supplies at low bulk prices and come up more easily with down payments for cars, houses and large appliances. Indeed, the system is working so well that several other Danish, and some foreign concerns are thinking of copying...