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...there was a 28.7% increase over 1966 as 973,578 business and pleasure visitors arrived from overseas. In August, 191,494 travelers arrived in the U.S., a 50.2% jump over the same month last year. Impressive percentage increases in tourists during the eight months were shown by Finland (94.2%), France (89.4%), Ecuador (67.3%) and Japan...
...Gauguins, Matisses and early Picassos. Two other great sights: the Peter and Paul Fortress housing the tombs of all the Romanovs from Peter the Great to Alexander III (except Peter II), and the baroque gardens of Petrodvorets, the old Summer Palace, 40 minutes outside town on the Gulf of Finland. A delightful summertime consequence of Leningrad's northern location is the "white nights"-it stays light until around midnight and never gets totally dark. Another consequence: summer evenings as chill...
Abroad, Pentecostalism has spread to more than 90 nations from Australia to South Africa and South Korea to Finland. Nowhere has it found more ardent followers than in Brazil. There are now 2,600,000 Pentecostalists in that nominally Catholic country-a gain of 1,100,000 since 1962. A major reason for the harvest is that, despite the Brazilians' traditionally easygoing approach to religion, many seem to be drawn by the intimacy and fervor of Pentecostal services, the joyous and uninhibited hymn singing, and the upright rigidity of the church's moral standards (no smoking or drinking...
...view of the Soviet Union's demand that Israel return to its original boundaries, would it not be appropriate for the Israeli representative to the U.N. to request that the Soviet Union do likewise, that is, return East Berlin, Poland, Danzig, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, two portions of Finland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania and several outlying bases to their original owners...
...test his hypothesis, Dr. Rosen later studied men in two mental hospitals in Finland, where the intake of hard dairy fats and the incidence of heart disease are about the world's highest. Finnish doctors put the men in one hospital on a low-fat diet. After five years, their cholesterol levels and their heartdisease death rate dropped, as expected. In addition, low-fat men in the 50-to-59 age range had more acute hearing than men aged 40 to 49 in the nondiet, high-fat hospital...