Word: finland
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After his appointment last March as U.S. Ambassador to Finland, Rowan fascinated the Finns with his outspoken talk about U.S. racial problems. And on racial matters, Rowan is understandably militant. "No people I can recall in history ever got their freedom on a silver platter," he says. "The Negro is no exception. There's a latent decency in the American conscience. But it takes this militancy to arouse...
Lindenkranar, which has plants in Sweden and licensees in England and Finland, manufactures 500 cranes a year, exports them to 17 countries and has annual sales of $5,000,000. Bigger Liebherr, with crane sales of $20 million, turns out 2,000 cranes annually, has plants in Austria, France, Ireland and South Africa in addition to seven in Germany. Both companies expect business to rise handsomely as builders around the world discover the benefits of tower cranes. "The sky's the limit," says Lindenkranar President Elis Linden, discussing the height at which his products can work-but also describing...
...their morale. He was genuinely appalled by Stalin's mass slaughter of Russia's peasantry and said so. But he confused his followers by scrupulously refusing to call for Stalin's overthrow and by defending Stalin's incredibly Machiavellian foreign policy-even the invasion of Finland. He was always afraid of a bourgeois restoration in Russia and would do nothing to jeopardize the regime, which was the only Communist government in operating condition...
Finally, within hours of President Kennedy's assassination, Johnson called in U.S. Ambassador to Finland Carl Rowan, 38, for a chat. Since Johnson's problems of the moment hardly included the diplomatic climate in Helsinki, it seemed certain that Rowan was getting a job offer. A Negro and a onetime reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, where he won awards for his reportage of U.S. racial tensions, Rowan was named Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in 1961, was a Johnson adviser on the Vice President's travels abroad. Speculation had it that Press Secretary Pierre...
...moving spirit behind this worldly-wise enterprise is Sister Benedita Idefelt, 43, a Catholic nun from Finland, who now teaches school in the Brazilian town of Juiz de Fora. In Cristo Total, Sister Benedita has retold the Catholic devotion of the Stations of the Cross, taking bold liberties with the story...