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The article presents information on the chronology of events related to the field of computer industry. Workshop on Quantized Computer Graphics Systems, Argonnc National Laboratory, to be held from November 14-15, 1972 in Argonne, Illinois. Data Centre 72, to be held from November 15-17, 1972 in Sheraton-Copenhagen Hotel, Copenhagen, Denmark. The Sixth Asilomar Conference on Circuits and Systems, to be held from November 15-17, 1972 in Asilomar Hotel and Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California. Conference 72, organized by Data Processing Management Association, to be held from November 16-17, 1972 in New York City, New York. The 8th Data Processing Conference of the Information Processing Association of Israel, to be held from November 20-21, 1972 in Hilton Hotel, Tel Aviv. The U.S. Exhibition at COMPUTER 72, to be held from December 4-8, 1972 in Olympia Exhibition Hall, London, England. The American Mathematical Society 79th Annual Meeting, to be held from January 25-29, 1973 in Dallas, Texas.

Presents information related to the Danish invasion by Germany. Rumors in the American press that there were Nazi sympathizers in Denmark; Action of the Danish state against the Nazi ex-Communists who ran a Nazi paper; Assembly of the Danes on Sundays, in Copenhagen to join in patriotic national songs; Circulation of books on every aspects of the national life in the country; Provision for sending unemployed to folk high schools; Aim of Reich to weave Denmark into the German economic realm and to break down the strong Danish labor organizations.

The article focuses on the question of allowing the organized film distributors, by using economic pressure, to force newspapers to curb their critics and commentators and modify their business policies to please the moving-picture interests. Since distributor organizations comprise both American and foreign film buyers, the affair has serious implications for the United States as well as for Denmark. The case of film critic, and a genuine film enthusiast, Harald Engberg, in Copenhagen, Denmark's Politiken newspaper is presented.

At the conference of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in September 1946 at Copenhagen, thirty-three nations, including the U.S., accepted in principle the plan for a world food board drawn up by John Boyd Orr, director-general of the FAO. The American objections to a world food board, as advanced by Under Secretary of Agriculture Norris E. Dodd, were negative and defeatist in character. While agreeing that some international action to fight famine is desirable, Dodd declared that the Orr plan was too complicated, too costly and unworkable because of the ill effects of government intervention on agricultural supply and demand.

Focuses on an Anti-Alcohol Congress which took place at Copenhagen, Denmark, paid especial attention to an attack upon tobacco. Report that tobacco has been assailed on physical, mental and moral grounds; Comments on the consumption of tobacco; Claims that those engaged in intellectual pursuits or other forms of mental stress are most likely to feel the need of tobacco; Information about Nicotine; Influence of tobacco on heart, mental activity and vascular system; Report that nicotine is the active principle in tobacco; Use of tobacco in the manufacture of the cigarette.

The article presents an anecdote about a Mathematics teacher who took his wife to Copenhagen to learn how to count in Danish language. As his tutor, he called a waitress in a café, to whom he proffered a paper on which he had written a numbers one to four. The waitress smiled and continued to count and wrote five to eight. One of his friend ended the game and pointed a bottle of beer and holding up to two fingers.

The article profiles attorney Mogens Glistrup, head of the Progress Party, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Glistrup had created companies that would borrow money from each other, and pay tax-deductible interest to each other. He had disapproved the way the government had collected taxes, and how they spent it. He believed that the 8.2 billion dollars budget could be cut by one-fifth, and 80 percent of the civilians could be transferred to productive jobs. His Progress Party had draw several defectors from among the Social Democrats.

The article offers information on 1970 annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to be held at Copenhagen, Denmark on the role of rigidly fixed international exchange rates in International payments.