Word: finlander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only two nations-Indonesia and Finland-have withdrawn their forces and only for economic reasons. Morale is high, and relations among the units friendly. The men of UNEF handed Hammarskjold $3,600 to be used as Christmas gifts for the thousands of Arab refugee children in UNRWA's Gaza camps. Indian troops volunteered to relieve Danes, Norwegians, Canadians, Swedes, Brazilians and Colombians of their guard duty for the Christmastide. Said a member of Hammarskjold's staff: "All these people clearly want to be identified with the U.N. and to play their part in this unique operation. One after...
...Clinic can see a pint-sized (under 5 ft.), boyish-looking man step briskly up the drive with a 10- or 15-lb. pike slung over his shoulder. The fisherman is Dr. Arvo Ylppo, passing from his weekend avocation to his lifelong vocation. Ylppo, the only man in Finland to bear the proud title of archiater (chief physician, an honorific designation dating from ancient Greece), is the world's pioneering authority on premature babies...
...union-employer contract, gives speed and added momentum to the wage-price spiral. Formerly there was a time lag before wages adjusted to prices, during which time the price rise might be reversed, making a wage rise unnecessary. Today the process is automatic. One country questioning the practice is Finland. There escalator wages are considered a major cause of the inflation that is so severe that the Finmark had to be devalued on Sept. 15 from 231 to 320 to the U.S. dollar. Now the Finns are trying to hold the line on wages...
...women wanted to become ministers anyway, noted that in Denmark, which has permitted women clergy since 1947, only four have been ordained (in the U.S., the Northern Presbyterians and the Methodists, among other denominations, have ordained women). Perhaps, said the archbishop, Sweden could follow the example of Finland, where women serve their churches as theologians, not as ministers...
Adagio to Scherzo. Jean Sibelius molded his ideas in the post-romantic Germany of the 1890 While he was studying in Berlin he was exposed to such famed symphonists as Bruckner and Brahms (whom he described as "an unsavory-looking fellow, untidily dressed"), and he went home to Finland imbued with Germanic musical vision, but with a style of his own. His early music-En Saga, Finlandia and other tone poems-is filled with striding themes, echoes of folk tunes, broadly brooding melodies that reminded listeners of the good Finnish earth and established Sibelius as the composer of unfettered nature...