Word: finland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Finland has kept its independence as a nation by carefully avoiding any internal or external policy that would rile the neighboring Russians. Since 1958, the Finns' readiness to please has even extended to excluding from the Cabinet all Social Democrats, against whom the Russians developed a grudge after World War II. But in last week's elections, Finnish voters were plainly unbothered by Moscow's traditional veto. In the biggest postwar gain in a Finnish election, the Social Democrats won 18 new seats, jumped ahead of the Center (formerly Agrarian) Party and the Communists to become...
...executive and five-time Premier, whose open courting of Soviet good will rankles many Finns, who remember two bitter wars against the Russians. But more important, the vote was an indication of the country's changing voting pattern: as more people leave farm and forest for jobs in Finland's burgeoning factories, they are switching to the urban-oriented Social Democrats, who rank as a middle-of-the-road party and promise to do something about inflation (up 4% last year) and better housing...
Five countries--Denmark, Finland, Norway, West Germany, and New Zealand--have adopted the Swedish system, Britain is now considering adopting it. Even in Communist countries, there are "proconsuls" to handle personal grievances against the government...
...fact, whether it was in Moscow's best interests even to try was seriously debated throughout the Communist camp. The Communist newspapers of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Britain, France, Austria and Italy all vigorously condemned the trial. Argued one of France's best-known poets, Central Committee Member Louis Aragon, 68: "To make opinion a crime is something more harmful to the future of socialism than the works of these two writers could ever have been. It leaves a bit of fear in our hearts that one may think this type of trial is inherent in the nature...
...track performer. So far, Pennel has competed in eleven indoor meets, won in ten, been voted the outstanding athlete in three. Last month, at the Los Angeles Invitational meet, he soared over the bar at 16 ft. 9½ in., to break the world record set in 1963 by Finland's Pentti Nikula. Not bad for a 25-year-old wine salesman who has not prac ticed in more than a year and knows that each time he jumps may be his last...