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...Pomary section bears all the signs of a multinational project. The huge 600-ft -long, 4½-ft.-wide section of pipe that cuts under the riverbanks is from West Germany and Japan. Finland supplied the building that houses the turbine compressors, Britain the electrical equipment, Japan the valves, Italy the turbine compressors. Technicians from all those countries have been working on the project...
Shortly after she finished filming the spy thriller Gorky Park in Finland and Sweden, Polish Actress Joanna Pacula, 25, began mastering the fearsome Los Angeles freeways ("My car is like my purse, you have to take it everywhere") and polishing her English before a promotion tour to plug the movie, which will be released in December. Pacula plays Irina, a Siberian dissident who gets mixed up with a triple murder in the park and then falls in love with a Soviet detective, played by William Hurt. After such a heavy role, she says, "I'd like...
...Babe Didrikson and Buster Crabbe. The most sensational events were men's track and field, in which new world marks were set nearly every day. Probably the most heart-stopping was the 5,000-meter run: Ralph Hill, a hitherto unknown American, raced after the world-record holder, Finland's Lauri Lehtinen. Hill tried to pass him on the outside, then the inside, and was finally beaten in a virtual dead heat. The largely American crowd was angry at first, believing that the Finn had unfairly tried to stop Hill, but a word from the announcer ("Remember please...
...succeeded in getting the U.N. agency to defer major antipress proposals. Diplomats predicted that the second Talloires session would reinforce the journalists' counterattack: it drew 83 participants, vs. 63 in 1981, and included news organizations from the U.S., most of Western Europe, Japan and countries as diverse as Finland, India and Peru. Said Jean Gerard, U.S. Ambassador to the agency: "This makes UNESCO a little less anxious to take a confrontational tone." Still, Gerard believes that the agency has not sufficiently recognized the value of unregulated coverage: the U.S. will propose next month that UNESCO agree that a free...
This summer he will have a chance for more shopping. Lewis will compete at the World University Games in Canada in July, and in August he goes to the first official World Championships in Finland. Records could fall anywhere along the way. "I'm four inches away in the long jump," he says coolly, "one tick from the world record in the 100 and three ticks in the 200. They're all within reach, I think...