Word: finlander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Which is harder on the heart-work or leisure? This question got the full-dress treatment last week by 70 specialists from the U.S., Britain, Canada, Germany, Sweden and Finland, gathered in Milwaukee for a conference* on work and the heart. From studies designed to find out how much work a man can safely do after a heart attack, they developed some startling facts...
...their absence Molotov, one of the editors of Pravda, gave out Bolshevik policy: Demand the complete Marxist program forthwith. When the big Bolsheviks arrived, they pooh-poohed the youthful (27) Molotov's naive and uncompromising view. But when Lenin stepped out of his railroad car in the Finland Station, having been transported through Germany in a sealed car, it was seen that Molotov had been right: Lenin demanded "immediate peace [with Germany], bread and land," the whole Marxist book, and a little more besides...
Changing Definitions. Denmark was the first nation in Europe to enact sterilization laws (1929) ; Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland have followed suit. In the first 25 years of Denmark's plan, there were 8,600 sterilizations (in a population of 4,500,000). More than two-thirds were performed on mental defectives, of whom two-thirds were women. Of the 3,663 patients sterilized for reasons other than mental deficiency (e.g., physical deformities, deaf-mutism), seven-eighths were women. In recent years the number sterilized for feeblemindedness has dropped sharply (from 283 to 165 a year), partly because...
From Uncooked Fish. Another tapeworm partial to humans, Diphyllobothrium latum, is acquired by eating uncooked fish. It is common in Scandinavia, where raw fish livers are considered a delicacy. In some parts of Finland, 80% of the people are infected...
This was the most unequivocal pledge of British willingness to cooperate in "building Europe" ever made by a Briton in office. Eagerly, the 17 members of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (every Western European nation save Spain and Finland) agreed to hammer out concrete plans for the Free Trade Area by next July. As "coordinator," they selected an Englishman-Peter Thorneycroft...