Word: finlandization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FINLAND STATION by EDMUND WILSON 590 pages. Farrar, Straus and Giroux...
...Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Stillman Professor of Comparative Anatomy; Simon S. Kuznets, Baker Professor of Economics emeritus; George Homans '32, professor of Sociology; Reed C. Rollins, Gray Professor of Systematic Botany; Baruj Benacerraf, Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology; Alexander Leaf, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine; and Maxwell Finland '22, Minot Professor of Medicine emeritus...
Refusing vinegar-soaked sponges offered by spectators, saintly Bennett Beach '71 sprinted his way into the hearts of Boston's townspeople yesterday with a sub-three hour performance in the annual Boston Marathon. Competing for the KISKO KIWIS. Beach finished 32 minutes behind winner Olavi Suomalainen of Finland and well ahead of author Erich Segal '58. "He's a brave lad. Ben is," said race coordinator Jock Semple. "We've been needin' more of his kind, instead of all those fatsos from C.C. with the weird hats...
Despite the frequent Cabinet changes, Finland has a remarkable record of political stability. Almost all the parties and their disparate factions agree on the basic issues: absolute neutrality between East and West and trade with the Common Market. Rather like Greta Garbo. Finland vants to be left alone, but it cannot afford to be. Sharing 788 miles of its 1,583-mile frontier with the Soviet Union, with whom it fought brutal losing wars in 1939-43, Finland is secure only while remaining neutral...
While it must give guarded political glances to the East, economically Finland looks to the West. The country has a forest-based economy that suffered a letdown after the boom of 1968-70 and is now faced with inflation, rising unemployment, a drop in G.N.P. growth from 8% to 1% in 1971, and a trade gap that last year topped $250 million. The country is counting heavily on the favorable outcome of free-trade agreements now being hammered out with the Common Market-particularly important when Britain, Finland's most important trading partner, joins...