Word: finlandization
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...contests at Grenoble were that close. Austria's pretty Olga Pall, 20, won the ladies' downhill by almost half a second over France's Isabelle Mir. The pro-caliber Russian hockey team blanked Finland, 8-0, and East Germany, 9-0, then handed the U.S. squad its third straight defeat, by the equally lopsided score of 10-2. Nine-time World Champion Eugenio Monti, at 40, demonstrated that he has lost none of his skill and daring by piloting Italy's No. 1 sled to victory in the first two heats of the two-man bobsled...
...margin of 49.7 sec.-roughly the equivalent of three city blocks. Some experts credited Nones' victory to the wax he used on his skis -a special green wax designed particularly for the kind of crusty, frozen snow that covered the course. But Third Place Finisher Eero Maentyranta of Finland, who won the same brutally taxing race at Innsbruck in 1964, allowed that wax was not his problem. Said he: "I was so exhausted I had to stop and be sick...
Tuesday, February 6 1968 WINTER OLYMPICS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Taped highlights of the opening ceremonies, and first round of hockey competition: U.S. v. Czechoslovakia and U.S.S.R. v. Finland...
...overseas, which reached $5 billion last year. Under an obscure provision of the 1917 Banking Act, he decreed the first mandatory controls in U.S. history on such outlays, replacing the half-effective "voluntary" restraints in force since 1965. In South Africa and continental Western Europe (except for Greece and Finland), new investments of money from the U.S. were barred completely. Companies may finance new projects from foreign earnings and depreciation allowances, but only up to a ceiling of 35% of the average level of such expenditures in 1965 and 1966. In Latin America, Africa and Asia, investments will be held...