Word: finland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through such spectacular stunts, bearbaiting, beret-topped Newsman Jämsä (pronounced Yamsa) has got the stories that have helped the picture weekly Apu to achieve the largest magazine circulation (230,000) in Finland. In the course of his reporting chores, Jämsä has charmed a cobra, parachuted from 13,000 ft., tamed a lion, dived in a frogman's gear to a dangerous depth of 200 ft., and was stopped only by open water in an attempt to ski across the Baltic Sea from Finland to Sweden. Other Jämsä stunts...
...frustrating years, District Director Bruce Barber, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service's chief in San Francisco, had been waiting for a chance to deport sometime Communist Heikkila to Finland. Under the law, he seemed to be clearly deportable. His Finnish parents had brought him to the U.S. when he was three months old, but he had never become a U.S. citizen. And by his own admission, he was an active Communist Party member...
...soon as Heikkila had arrived in Finland--suitcase-less and clad in a summer suit--Gen. Swing, faced with a contempt citation, ordered him to be flown back...
Munnich gives Hungarians little to look forward to. A founder of Hungary's Communist Party and long a resident of Russia (he holds both Hungarian and Russian citizenship), he has been a stolid Moscow servant for decades. As Hungary's postwar ambassador to Finland, Bulgaria, Russia and Yugoslavia, he avoided involvement with the dangerous infighting inside the party, concentrated on Tokay wines, women and his rose garden...
...before the 18th century Tauride Palace was filled with artillery, machine guns, field kitchens. All the gates in the high grillwork fence were bolted except a small wicket gate at the extreme left, where we entered, single file. Each ticket of admission was studied by guards newly arrived from Finland and the Kronstadt naval base. There was a second checkup at the towering entrance to the palace, this time by units of a Latvian rifle brigade famed for its loyalty to Bolshevism and brought to Petrograd by Lenin because "the Russian peasant may vacillate if something happens-what...