Word: finland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with his wife, a wire-haired fox terrier, a second-hand Ford, a list of modestly priced Manhattan hotels-and an empty wallet. It was the most significant trip he had made outside his native Midwest since his teens, when he had attended a Y.M.C.A. conference in Finland as the official representative of the "Hi-Y" boys of Ohio. Many of his fellow executives think he has retained, to this day, an air of Y.M.C.A. earnestness and unblinking sincerity. One of them describes him as "just a country boy with a Madison Avenue gloss...
After visiting her old friend and teacher Jean Sibelius in Finland, bright-eyed Antonio Brico, 48, Denver conductor, flew on to French Equatorial Africa to see another old musical friend, Organist-Physician Albert Schweitzer, who had cabled: "You've always wanted to see my hospital. Get yourself a yellow-fever shot and a sun helmet and come...
...governor could not quite see what the fuss was about. He was "no longer intrigued by the sight of an undressed woman," he said somewhat irrelevantly, and furthermore a magazine called Finlandia Pictorial, then & there on his desk, showed all sorts of public nude statues in Finland. "We all know," said he, "that the Finns are a moral people." But Tom Mabry, a Democrat, was up for reelection, and arranged to hear both sides: the artists, and three churchmen, led by the head of the local Ministerial Alliance, a Protestant group...
What with an uncomfortable closeness to Russia, increased Communist activity on every side, recurrent strikes and an economic situation that would not settle down, the summer of 1950 was enough to drive Finns to drink. Fact is, it did. A member of Finland's Alcohol Monopoly Board last week revealed that liquor consumption in Finland for June, July and August of this year showed an increase of 20, 22 and 30% over the same months...
...week the Foreign Student Summer Project seemed to be a solid M.I.T. institution. Among its alumni: a West German who is building Bavaria's first electronic computer, a Norwegian who has discovered a new method of making gelatin out of seaweed, a Finn who has become editor of Finland's leading architectural magazine...