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...movie actress wife Anny Ondra have posed twirling what the Germans call Swing Reifen, Sport Reifen, Hula Reifen or Hulahupp. A Hanover store increased its sales by offering to deliver well-wrapped hoops after nightfall to childless couples who were too sheepish to carry them home. In Finland there are hula marathons that set contestants to twirling hoops about the hips, neck and knees all at once. In Japan, where some 3.000.000 hoops have been sold, people queued up in Tokyo department stores to buy tickets enabling them to get hoops later. In Johannesburg only the white kids can afford...
...reporter who has spent 13 of the past 23 years in Moscow. Denver-born Ed Stevens first went to Russia after graduation from Columbia University, there met (at an economics lecture) and married blonde Nina Andreyevna. Except for time-outs to cover ten World War II battle campaigns, from Finland to the Balkans and North Africa, and a postwar tour in the Mediterranean area, Stevens, a longtime Christian Science Monitor correspondent, has stuck close to the Soviet scene. He is the author of two books on Russia, Russia Is No Riddle and This Is Russia Uncensored. His wife Nina became...
Riding a back-country protest against unemployment and spiraling prices, the Communists emerged from last summer's elections as Finland's biggest party, holding 50 out of 200 parliamentary seats. Last week, after nearly two months of delicate dickering, all but one of Finland's six non-Communist parties banded together to form a government that will give the Communists even less influence over Finnish affairs than they had before their triumph at the polls...
...year-old Socialist Karl August Fagerholm, a former barber and longtime boss of the Finnish State Alcohol Monopoly. Scarcely had Fagerholm been sworn in when he 1) stepped up negotiations for a $50 million World Bank loan, and 2) insisted that Moscow call off the projected visit to Finland of Old Bolshevik Otto Kuusinen, Helsinki-born member of the Russian Party Presidium and father of Finnish Communist Party Leader Hertta Kuusinen. From across the Russian border that runs just 40 miles from Helsinki came a growl of disappointment. "Reactionary . . ." snapped Moscow's Izvestia. "The most right-wing...
...Bible quiz on the $64,000 Challenge; tiny Irene Santos, 39, a Seventh-day Adventist schoolteacher from Brazil; tall Roman Catholic Paul Guillamier, 19, of Malta, who brought his parish priest with him; matronly Protestant Convert Sara Rabinowitz of Mexico. These and the other contestants (representing Argentina, Colombia, Finland, France, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden and Uruguay) were on hand for the big international Bible quiz, sponsored by an Israeli group to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Israel's statehood...