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...York Times last week published a list of ambassadors appointed by President Nixon, along with the amounts that they contributed to his last two elections. The price for even the least prestigious post seems to run to five figures. Thus, in ascending order, V. John Krehbiel, Ambassador to Finland, paid out $19,000 to the G.O.P. in the past four years; Anthony D. Marshall, the ambassador to sunny Trinidad and Tobago, $75,505; John P. Humes, Ambassador to Austria...
...epee, Risto Hurme from NYU and Ernesto Fernandez from Penn are in a hotly contested race for the individual title. Hurme has lost once, Fernandez twice, and the two epee men will meet in today's competition. The match should be a classic. Both fencers are Olympians, Hurme for Finland and Fernandez from Mexico. They are outstanding fencers of completely different styles. Hurme is a "tempo-rhythm" type of fencer, who always keeps moving; Fernandez is basically a point man, working around the arms and going for the feet...
...FINLAND is anxious to advance its role as an active neutral. At present the Finns badly need to sign a trade treaty with the nine-nation Common Market. But Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev has warned Finnish President Urho Kekkonen that the time is not right for Finland to make trade deals with the European Economic Community. Kekkonen, who places top foreign policy priority on maintaining friendly relations with the Kremlin, might be less reluctant to press ahead with an EEC trade treaty if Finland at the same time is the site of the security conference...
...massage chairs." Visitors who wandered among the displays could pick up free vitamin-pill samples, munch organic foods or drink Swedish mineral water. They could test their strength on some antique carnival machines or stare at the leotard-clad figure of Lizalotta Valesca, 70. In 1930 she was Miss Finland; today she is perhaps the world's best-preserved great-grandmother and a persuasive saleswoman for a line of health and beauty aids. Visitors could also slip into an adjoining auditorium and hear lectures on such subjects as biofeedback (TIME, Oct. 16) and the prevention of illness and achievement...
Last week's vote revived dreams of a neutral Nordic grouping of Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark. Sweden has traditionally provided the impetus, but its attempts to form a Nordic defense alliance foundered in 1949 when Norway joined NATO. Last year Soviet pressure on Finland scuttled Swedish-backed attempts to create Nor-dek, a Nordic economic union. For the near future, Nordek is probably dead, but after a discreet interval, Sweden may well propose more intensive economic cooperation among Nordic nations...