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This was the most unequivocal pledge of British willingness to cooperate in "building Europe" ever made by a Briton in office. Eagerly, the 17 members of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (every Western European nation save Spain and Finland) agreed to hammer out concrete plans for the Free Trade Area by next July. As "coordinator," they selected an Englishman-Peter Thorneycroft...
...Potato Chip. Once Mies had demonstrated that a chair's metal frame could be used in place of springs, Finland's Alvar Aalto showed that the same thing could be done with molded plywood. In the U.S., Architect Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames teamed up in 1940 to produce a molded plywood chair that shifted the emphasis to organic shape, form-fitted to the human body. Using molded plastic, Saarinen then developed the idea into his famed "womb" chair; Eames evolved a whole series, ranging from his early hard-surfaced plywood "potato chip" chair to plastic chairs which...
Hungary's revolt had thrown into doubt a scheduled Bulganin-Khrushchev swing through Scandinavia. Last week, as a sort of second best, B. and K. accepted an invitation to visit Finland in the spring. Cracked Khrushchev: "Spring is the best time of the year because love is then at its strongest." Meanwhile, Defense Minister Marshal Georgy Zhukov was visiting India. Although Nehru pointedly spent more time in the company of another visitor, his old friend Lady Mountbatten, Zhukov had a profitable week riding an elephant and showing Nehru's tough Indian cadets how to use a bayonet...
...kept in check by the way in which Communist Gomulka has achieved a provisional and perilous independence. The stir and prod of the Polish people on Gomulka, and the concessions he must make, are the best chance that Poland will achieve a peaceful transition from puppet state to the Finland model of cautious independence-but independence nonetheless-in the shadow of its big neighbors...
Died. Dr. Juho Kusti Paasikivi, 86, pudgy, crop-headed longtime Finnish statesman and Finland's President from 1946 to 1956, who negotiated three peace treaties with Russia (1920, 1940, 1944), successfully guided his country along a tortuous path between excessive appeasement and foolhardy provocation of its carnivorous neighbor; of a heart attack; in Helsinki. Born Johan August Hellsten, he changed his Swedish name to its Finnish equivalent before he entered politics, served twice as Finnish Premier (1918, 1944-46) before running for President. In 1955 he made his seventh official journey to the Kremlin1, negotiated a 20-year mutual...