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...anything but their male companions. While some of these not-so-innocents abroad may have well-planned itineraries, most are rather aimlessly following crowds of their countrymen in a quest for good vibrations. They are joining millions of footloose European youths, who are wandering far and wide from Hammerfest to Gibraltar-and points even farther out. Whatever their mother tongue, the youngsters manage to communicate. They speak a sort ot Jeunesperanto, and they share much the same style of dress, penchant for folk music and smoking habits...
Next day, as the overloaded Tusk slid into the harbor of Hammerfest, Norway, almost all of the town's tough, seawise population was waiting on its fishing wharves to salute a feat of courage and seamanship...
Subscriber Ulf Hauan of Hammerfest, Norway, having read in our Feb. 28 issue that some residents of Punta Arenas, Chile, were probably TIME'S southernmost readers, wondered whether he was the northernmost reader. He is a leading contestant for this arctic title, Hammerfest being Europe's northernmost town...
...spoke tall, tired King Haakon VII of what was left of Norway last week, by proclamation to his captive people. He was somewhere above the Arctic Circle, in Harstad, Tromso or Hammerfest, far north of Narvik, where a British destroyer carried him last fortnight when he narrowly escaped from Molde at the mouth of bomb-battered Romsdal Fjord below Trondheim...
...else Blitzkrieg would affect U. S. business no man could say. Scandinavian trade is a complicated network which taps world ports from the Thames to the Weddell Sea, from Hammerfest to Antarctica. The tireless tramps of Norway, No. 4 world seafarer, carry the bulk of Cuban sugar shipments to the U. S., play a bigger part in Philippines-U. S. traffic than the ships of any nation. South America, with an export balance of $20-25,000,000 annually to Scandinavia, has often used Scandinavian proceeds to buy U. S. goods. Great Britain got 50% of her bacon and eggs...