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...Ambassador to Turkey: Avra M. Warren, 59, longtime (32 years) foreign serviceman, former Ambassador to Pakistan and the Dominican Republic, Minister to Finland...
Slim, buoyant Frances Willis is a hardworking, tactful career diplomat. A Ph.D. (Stanford), she taught history at Goucher and politics at Vassar before entering the foreign service at 28, served tours of duty in Chile, Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain and Finland. In 1944-45 she was assistant to Under Secretary of State Joseph Grew, who says of her nomination to be Ambassador to Switzerland: "I think nobody could do a better job than...
World Music Festivals (Sun. 2130 p.m., CBS). "Sibelius Festival," recorded in Finland...
...Compton, Calif., Discus Thrower Fortune Gordien set a new American record of 186 ft. 2¼ in., just 8¾ in. shy of the world record he set in Finland...
...starter's gun, Belgium's Reiff set a fast pace, running the first quarter in 62.7 sec. Finland's Johansson took over the lead for the next quarter, was timed at the half in 2:05.2. Then, with a burst of long strides, Wes Santee took over. He tore past the three-quarter mark in 3 :03.5, then reeled off the last quarter in a dazzling 0:58.9 to breast the tape in front at 4:02.4. His time was precisely one second off the world record set by Sweden's Gunder Hagg...