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...directing mind" of the ring, jowly Gordon Lonsdale, 38-who smiled fleetingly when the judge described him as "clearly a professional spy." Lonsdale's true identity is still unknown, but he is certainly a Russian and a Soviet intelligence agent. His claim to be a Canadian taken to Finland by his mother at the age of eight, was conclusively demolished when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police uncovered the fact that the real Lonsdale* was circumcised; the London "Lonsdale" is not. His sentence: 25 years...
Notified of the Soviet action Friday, Edward L. Pattulla, assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, also announced that James H. Billington, assistant professor of History, will lecture at Leningrad in March. Billington in an eighteenth century Russian historian, currently studying in Finland on a leave of absence...
Keys gets his cases all over the world. A doggedly inquisitive scientist, he is as familiar a figure in the vineyards of Crete, the mountains of Dalmatia and the forests of Finland as he is on the University of Minnesota campus. Money to support his wide-ranging studies comes from the U.S. Public Health Service ($100,000 a year), the American Heart Association ($17,000), the International Society of Cardiology, six foreign governments and about a dozen other no-strings sources. One of his chief fund raisers is Dr. Paul Dudley White, President Eisenhower's heart specialist, who, together...
...invest after he had graduated from New York University (at 18) and spent three years in the Army. He bought the drowsy Laurel-in-the-Pines resort hotel in Lakewood, N.J. with a partner, attracted guests by refurbishing it and using promotion stunts (one: importing three reindeer from Finland). He made so much money the first year that he bought out his partner...
Late one night Kekkonen carried Khrushchev off to his lakeside villa, where the two stripped and sweated companionably for an hour in Kekkonen's private sauna, then emerged to talk serious business until 5 a.m. Next day the two issued a joint communique promptly interpreted as granting Finland permission to become a qualified member of the Free Trade Area in order to "remain competitive in Western markets." What the communique seemed to give might still be taken away when actual negotiations begin in Moscow in November (for Khrushchev also insisted upon "maintaining and expanding" Finnish trade with Russia). Nevertheless...