Soviet nuclear tests produced an unexpected fallout over Norway last week, costing the Communist Party's representative his lone seat in the Storting (Parliament). After the votes were counted in the country's quadrennial election, Red Deputy Emil Lovlien exploded: "I have been bombed out of the Storting by Mr. Khrushchev!"
Deputy Lovlien was not the only one to be dislodged. Norway's long-ruling Labor Party found itself without a parliamentary majority for the first time since 1945. The vote was split, with 74 seats going to the Labor Party, 74 to the combined non-Socialist...
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