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...tree's range is unbelievable. If grows in the tropics, in higher altitudes above 7,000 feet and in practically every European country. Chaney reports that 50 trees lived through the 1949 Alaskan winter during which the earth froze to a depth of four feet. They are said in Finland to have survived a minimum temperature of 50 degrees centigrade...
Died. Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg, 87, "the George Washington of Finland," who fought for independence from Russia, became its first President (1919-25); in Helsinki...
...debate over Libya, Malik brought up an old Russian proposal for a package deal: if the Security Council admits Red satellites Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania and Outer Mongolia, Russia will no longer veto such other Western-supported applicants as Austria, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Nepal and Portugal...
...Finland's last "golden schooner" slid into Russian waters last week. Named for the bright brass and copper alloy used for its fittings, the schooner meant gold for Russia in another sense: it was the final payment of doughty Finland's $570 million reparations debt to Russia. Finland thus lived up to a reputation established as the only World War I debtor nation which punctually made its payments...
...remedy this situation, 300 delegates from 25 lands gathered in Paris last week for the 24th International Congress Against Alcoholism. Flower-hatted old teapots from English vicarages, prune-juice-quaffing prohibitionists representing teetotalers from Finland to Madagascar, they seemed to divide into two categories: 1) the All-Drys, mainly British and Scandinavian; 2) the Half-Wets, preponderantly French...