Word: finland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refugees. To record the long train trip from Moscow to the Urals that is the central odyssey of the novel, Lean went into below-zero temperatures in the northern Finnish lumber town of Joensuu, photographed the "refugees" trekking across Lake Pyhaselka, over which, during the 1940 Russian invasion of Finland, the Soviets had actually laid a winter railway...
...corporate-gift retailers number about 100, the total may reach $25 million. This year German industry will lay out close to $105 million in gifts; Germany has close to 1,000 gift makers and distributors. The practice of giving business gifts at Christmas is growing 10% a year in Finland; in Stockholm, a dozen firms now specialize in gifts for Swedish businessmen...
American Influence. Gift-giving practices vary-and so do the taboos. The trend in Britain, unlike the rest of Europe, is toward less expensive gifts because of new, more stringent tax laws on gift giving. In Finland, any gift exceeding $30 is considered a straight bribe, and in Sweden it is considered bad form to give liquor-the most popular gift in the rest of Europe. The Germans prefer gifts that can be used over and over, do not like conspicuous firm names or advertising messages. Very few firms in Europe forbid their employees to accept gifts...
Carl Rowan, 40, returns to journalism after serving as Ambassador to Finland and director of USIA. He plans to avoid strictly racial topics in his thrice-weekly column, which deals with everything from what's wrong with U.S. foreign policy to what's wrong with present-day pop tunes...
...British intelligence, large and powerful during the war but fallen into genteel desuetide, receives a report that the Russians may be assembling a missile base in East Germany. A charter-plane pilot is induced to veer off-course to photograph the countryside and a middle-aged courier, sent to Finland to retrieve the film, is run down by an automobile on the way to his hotel. His death may mean that the Russians really are up to something; but, more important, it provides an excuse for reactivating the Department...