Word: finland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sire & Sisu. Saarinen credits his natural competitiveness partly to his Finnish sisu* and the example of his hardworking, hard-playing father. Eliel Saarinen was Finland's No. 1 architect (the Helsinki railroad station and National Museum) and town planner (Helsinki, and Canberra, Australia). He set up headquarters in a romantic, rustic, 38-room retreat which he and his partners built overlooking Hvitträsk (White Lake), 18 miles outside Helsinki. After he married a sister of one of his partners, Sculptress Loja Gesellius, they turned it into a center of crafts and architecture. Among the stream of visitors...
...Haiti, Finland, Norway, Burma, a total $62 million in four loans, all within the last month. Haiti got $2.600.000 for a three-year road program to improve much of its 1,875 miles of mule-track roads; Finland, $15 million to help finance 344,000 kw. of new power capacity for industry; Norway, $25 million to expand its enormous Tokke power project by 400,000 kw., eventually bring it to 800,000 kw.; Burma, two loans totaling $19.4 million to help improve its Toonerville railroads, turn Rangoon into a first-class seaport with new cargo berths, warehouses, dredges and tugs...
...cast by the sun in both places. This amounts to measuring an arc of the earth's surface and observing the altitude of the sun at both ends. The Army Map Service did the same thing, but the arc that it measured extended (5,777.5 nautical miles) from Finland to the southern end of Africa, more than one-quarter of the earth's circumference. Part of the arc coincided with the arc that Eratosthenes used...
Data for measuring the Finland-South Africa arc came from many sources. The European section had been measured many times, but the latest information was gathered by a group that ransacked Germany after World War II for the Nazis' geodetic secrets, which were dragged from hiding places, including a room full of human bones under a monastery...
Young Igor first ventured out of Russia in 1949 to win the first prize in violin at the Budapest Youth Festival. Since then he has popped up in England, France, Finland, Austria and Switzerland, collecting plenty of excited notices. This time he dashed through ten performances in West Germany (plus recording sessions) in 15 days, wound up last week with a grand finale in West Berlin's cold and functional Titania-Palast theater...