Word: finland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much of the world, Scandinavia, rather than the U.S., represents the ideal of an economic Utopia. Sweden has the world's second highest per capita income; Denmark, Norway and Finland also rank high. All four are free of slums, hunger and extreme poverty. All enjoy steady economic growth combined with full employment. By contrast, the U.S. is beset by labor unrest, rising unemployment and slow growth. How do the Scandinavians do so much better...
...American delegation will stay at a resort hotel called Fisherman's Hut, which overlooks the Bay of Finland. At present, the Americans hope to probe Soviet intentions for a couple of weeks and then return to Washington for instructions before serious talks...
...German art lovers, the greatest curiosity was the St. Barbara altarpiece from Finland's National Museum in Helsinki-Meister Francke's earliest known work. Its eight richly painted panels sum up the characteristic ambiguities of Meister Francke's style. In The Flagellation of St. Barbara, the brutal, peasant faces and awkward, potbellied figures of Barbara's tormentors foreshadow the popular style of Bruegel or Bosch-though neither painter had been born when they were painted. By contrast, nothing could be more courtly than the boneless sinuosity of Barbara's figure, the vapid sweetness...
...Italy), painting for the glory of God and the benefit of his order while the fame of his brush spread throughout the Hanseatic trading towns of Eastern Europe to the farthest reaches of the Baltic. Commissions came in to his monastery from as far away as Estonia and Finland...
Progress in the North. Meanwhile, in Copenhagen, the Scandinavians were making substantial progress toward creating their own economic alliance. After two weeks of final and frenetic discussions, representatives of Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland emerged with a detailed blueprint for a Nordic Economic Community, dubbed Nordek. The draft agreement must still be ratified by the respective Scandinavian parliaments, and there were still difficult compromises to be worked out -notably on dairy products, meat and fisheries. Even so, the consensus was that surprisingly good progress had been made. Targeted by its drafters to go into operation Jan. 1, 1971, Nordek would...