Word: finland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dancer Martha Graham, and seven American one-act plays. The show was pulling East Berliners over the border. And so was the new Congress Hall itself, along with the nearby Hansa district housing projects by such designers as Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer, U.S. Architect Walter Gropius and Finland's Alvar Aalto (TIME, April 30, 1956). Using the new buildings as the site for a summer-long architectural fair, West Berliners had already attracted 725,000 visitors, including one group of 33 Polish architects, proved that in the struggle for Berlin good architecture is a good weapon...
...villagers who wandered the birch-laden slopes near Lake Tuusula in southern Finland were accustomed to seeing the massive old man in his Homburg and precisely tailored business suit walking slowly along the shaded lanes, easing his weight on a heavy stick. Invariably, they saluted him, for they knew that they were in the presence of greatness. His admirers indeed claimed Jean Sibelius as one of the century's greatest composers, and since he outlived all major contenders for the title except Stravinsky, during recent years he reigned in almost solitary splendor. Yet, compared to such contemporaries as Richard...
...Cleveland, Mrs. Olga Fikotova Connolly, the ex-Czech Olympic star who broke the Iron Curtain to marry U.S. Olympic Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly, scored at a national Amateur Athletic Union meet by breaking the U.S. women's discus record. Her throw: 147 ft. 8 in. In Naantali, Finland, England's Derek Ibbotson ran his fourth sub-four-minute mile (3:58.7), was followed by Finland's Olavi Vuorisalo (3:59.1). In Oslo, Pennsylvania's Josh Culbreath broke the 440-yd. hurdles world record (51.3 sec.) set by a Russian in 1954. Culbreath's time...
...continental U.S., Alaska and the Aleutians, Canada, and the U.S.S.R. "will be open to inspection." If the Soviet Union turns down this broad proposal, the four powers "with the consent of Denmark and Norway" propose an Arctic zone containing everything within the Arctic Circle except Finland and Sweden, plus those parts of Alaska, Kamchatka south of the Arctic Circle, and all the Aleutian and Kurile Islands...
They saw a great race. Coming into the homestretch, Sweden's Dan Waern led by three meters. Then Finland's Olavi Vuorisalo, Olavi Salonen and Olavi Salsola all nickered past. Almost as one man, the three Finns sprinted across the line. Ten minutes later, after studying the photo finish, the judges announced the astounding news: all three had broken the old record of 3:40.6, Salsola finishing first in 3:40.2, Salonen second in the same time, and Vuorisalo third...