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...President Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, 81, a victim for the past few years of progressive hardening of the arteries. Although inevitable, Kekkonen's departure still shocked many of the 4.8 million Finns, who cannot remember any other presidential figure than the tall, bald, once athletic man who has guided Finland since...
...Canadian surplus stocks, and we clinched the deal." The Panamanian antiques were sold to U.S. gun collectors, and Cummings was launched as an international gun barterer. He recycled 26 Vampire jets from Sweden to the Dominican Republic, swapped field equipment for Guatemalan arms, sold 80,000 machine guns to Finland and got a cache of old collectibles in return...
...Livable Cities (1979). Von Eckardt was a recipient of one of the first Ford Foundation grants for writers in the arts, and is the holder of an American Institute of Architects medal for distinguished criticism of architecture. Two weeks ago he was in the noted "new town" of Tapiola, Finland, to receive the Tapiola medal for promoting the idea of well-designed planned communities...
...fairway divots and making final preparations for the Sept. 18 dedication of the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids. He too will then take a swing abroad, stopping off first in London for the Bob Hope British Classic golf tournament and then moving on to Sweden, Denmark and Finland. After that? Stay tuned...
Early this year, before the trial of the older attackers began, defense lawyers thought the case so hopeless that they attempted (and failed) to plea-bargain with Prosecutor Robert Rodrigues. Once again, Anna flew back to Hawaii from Finland. In direct testimony she described the assaults. But the defense lawyers declined to cross-examine Anna. In so doing they forfeited a chance to challenge her story, but they also cut off the prosecutor's only opportunity to draw further detailed testimony from her in rebuttal...