Word: finlander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bases. ¶Accepted with regret the resignation of Virginia's former Governor John S. Battle from the Civil Rights Commission, started the tough job of finding another Southerner to serve in Battle's place. ¶Nominated John D. Hickerson, able U.S. Ambassador to Finland since 1955, to succeed Washington-bound Ambassador Charles ("Chip") Bohlen in Manila...
...year elections, was quick to praise Bohlen's statesmanship and to declare that "less capable hands" might have imperiled U.S.-Philippine friendship. But Garcia's warmth did not necessarily augur an easy time for Bohlen's prospective successor, John D. Hickerson, now U.S. Ambassador to Finland. Still left for Hickerson to settle: the long-standing dispute as to how much jurisdiction Philippine courts should have over U.S. servicemen...
...effortless take-over for the extremely well-organized Communistic minority. In such places as Argentina, Indonesia, Iraq, etc., the armies are just holding their own against the subversive forces of Communism, and should the hypothetical case of complete disarmament become a reality, Western countries such as France, Italy and Finland could fall without a shot being fired, and the rest of the world-according to Lenin-would follow suit as docile stock being led to the slaughterhouse...
BRIGHTEST star among the bright young architects of the 1930s was a dour-looking, dynamic Finn named Alvar Aalto. His TB sanatorium at Paimio, Finland, with its cantilevered decks, was a landmark in the new international style. Almost singlehanded he had made wood a "modern material," used it in a dazzling variety of ways-an undulating ceiling for a library in Viipuri, an undulating wall for the Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair-and the tastemakers of the era all sat in Aalto's curved plywood chairs. But as the glass-and-steel revolution...
...architects are developing uneasy qualms as the glass-curtain wall begins to turn whole streets into reflecting canyons and reinforced concrete seems headed toward a kind of new brutalism. As a result, the buildings Aalto has been quietly erecting among the pine forests and birch trees of his native Finland are coming up for a searching reevaluation. Result: Aalto's reputation is once again skyrocketing...