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...embarrassing fall capped a long list of more serious accidents. All week ski trails had softened under bright skies, then frozen at night into suicidal speed runs. U.S. Army Private Leslie Streeter broke a shoulder bone. His teammate, Ragnar Ulland, soared to a crash landing in a practice ski jump and was badly bruised. Italy's downhill ski champion, Maria-Grazia Marchelli, fresh from a plaster cast, whipped down a Tofana slope at 50 m.p.h.; she wound up back on the sidelines with a torn knee ligament. In a sense, the accidents were inevitable. The traditional contests, with which...
...been more concerned about Joe's case than Swedish-born Ragnar Nelson, a dapper, bow-tied Republican assemblyman who sold insurance on the side. "Rags" Nelson sponsored Joe's bill in the legislature, helped push it through both houses...
...Ragnar R. Woxen, president of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, visited the University yesterday to study laboratory facilities as an aid in planning an enlargement of the institute he heads...
Weary of her sinecure. Poetess Mistral last week applied for a transfer to California. Two days later she had callers-the tall Swedish Minister, Ragnar Kumlin, and his elegant wife. Kumlin crossed Gabriela's tiny room and placed a bouquet of pink roses at her feet...
...oath, guaranteeing the Lutheran clergy's right to preserve their parishioners' confidences, as Catholic priests preserve the secrets of the confessional, was Norway's "Magna Carta" of conscience. The seven bishops of Norway prepared to act. In a letter addressed to Minister of Church and Education Ragnar Skancke, they denounced the reign of terror by the Storm Troopers, the attack on schools and students, the forced resignation of the Supreme Court, and demanded to know whether the Norwegian State was still Christian...