Word: finland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dear Time-Reader Jorma ja Eera-Pekka Paavolainen is a TIME-subscriber in Finland. How to fit this jawbreaker of a name on TIME'S standard subscription record cards is the job of a crew of girls in TIME'S Denver circulation office, which handles records for most of our subscribers in military service and for many overseas TIME readers...
Disappointing Eagle. But his pamphlets had caught the eye of Lenin. That year young Djugashvili met the famous Lenin at a party conference in Finland. At that point (as today), Lenin was a certified god in the world Pantheon of social progress, but hard-boiled Djugashvili was not impressed: "I had hoped to see the mountain eagle of our party," he wrote. "How great was my disappointment to see a most ordinary looking man, below average height, in no way distinguishable from ordinary mortals...
Asking Red Rumania to halt the Wiima at dockside was pointless. So the U.S. turned to Finland, whose government dislikes Communism but fears to show it too openly. The Finns bravely promised that no more fuel oil will be shipped to Red China in Finnish bottoms, but they couldn't stop the Wiima: she is immune from government interference while on the high seas...
John Moors Cabot, 51, a veteran career diplomat whose last post was Minister to Finland, arrived this week in Caracas, Venezuela to head the U.S. delegation to the Inter-American Economic and Social Council. Careerman Cabot, an affable old Latin American hand who has served in posts outside the hemisphere since 1947, is almost sure to become the new U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American affairs...
...sick list included: King Tribhubana of Nepal, who flew to New Delhi for a consultation with his doctors; 17-year-old King Hussein of Jordan, who was excused from his military classes at Sandhurst to have a sinus operation in London; Finland's President Juho Paasikivi, 82, ordered by his doctors to take a week's rest when they decided he was working too hard; and Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, ordered to forgo two of his favorite sports, skiing and horse jumping, because of a weak vertebra, the result of an old auto accident...