Word: finland
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...basketball team rolled to two more easy wins, 77-50 over Finland and 60-48 over Peru...
...born in Helsingfors, Finland, and received the Ph.D. from the University of Helsingfors in 1930. He has been professor of Mathematics at Harvard since 1946 and earlier taught at Helsingfors and the University of Zurich. Professor Ahlfors is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences and holds an honorary LL.D, from Boston College. He lives with his wife and daughter in Winchester...
...Adventist bookkeeper from Brazil, a Swiss electrician. From the U.S. came Polish-born Samuel Joshua Singer, 58, a onetime Yeshiva student and a former assistant attorney general of New York State. France sent a professional Scriptural scholar, Roman Catholic Abbe Raymond Seguineau, 42, who is preparing a Bible concordance; Finland's champion was blonde, blue-eyed Irja Immonen, 29, a church worker. The Israeli champion, predictably, was a rabbinical student: tense, bearded Yomtov Krasniansky, 24, who crammed for 15 hours a day before the contest. Calmest of the lot was Graham Mitchell, 29, a Seventh-day Adventist...
...rule had failed, even boomeranged against him in the form of Turkey's threat to invade. Now, suddenly, the wily prelate was all sunshine and smiles. He got along famously with the new U.N. mediator, Ecuador's ex-President Galo Plaza, replacing the late Sakari Tuomioja of Finland, who died this month of a stroke. An athletic, handsome man of 58 who fights bulls for fun and is a constitutional optimist, Galo Plaza is proud of his Spanish ancestry. He said to Makarios, "I have Mediterranean blood in my veins and Mediterranean caution about believing...
...There is no "German representative" involved in the management of IBM in Denmark [Aug. 21]. The operations of IBM Denmark are the responsibility of a Danish-born general manager who, with general managers for IBM in Finland, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom, reports to an area executive in London. J. T. CARTY Director of Communications IBM World Trade Corp. New York City...