"Champagne!" cried joyous guests in Oslo's Continental Hotel. Staid brokers on the stock exchange floor whooped happily. At last the socialist Labor Party was out of power after 30 years of nearly continuous rule. Out with Labor went tall, spare Einar Gerhardsen, 68, the Grand Old Man of Norwegian socialism and the country's Premier for as long as almost anybody could remember.
Defeat came at the hands of a Conservative, Liberal, Christian and Center Party coalition that had been trying for years to unseat Labor, to no avail.In 1961 it came tantalizingly close, winning a 74-74 tie in...
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