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...wheels, floats or skis, with a 1,875-lb. work load and a maximum 630-mile cruising range, the Beaver is an ideal frontier plane. Canadian bush airlines clamored for them as soon as the first one came off the assembly line in 1947. De Havilland sold Beavers in Finland, Indonesia, Colombia, Malaya, Rhodesia and Chile. Now better than half the plant's entire output (currently 12 planes a month) will be delivered to the U.S. Army and Air Force...
There are few more conscientious men in the Senate than 71-year-old Alex Smith, and few more knowledgeable on U.S. foreign affairs. A student of Woodrow Wilson's at Princeton, he worked in Herbert Hoover's postwar relief organization in Belgium, Finland and the Balkans after World War I, and has long been a director of the Foreign Policy Association. As a lecturer in international relations and trustee of Princeton's Yenching Foundation, he has watched U.S. Far Eastern policy long and closely...
Died. Henrik Ramsay, 65, onetime Finnish Foreign Minister, who was sentenced to 2½ years in prison for having been a member of Finland's government during the wars with the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1944; of a heart attack; on the island of Gottland, Sweden...
Soon after landing at Oslo, Sport Researcher Anne Denny took time out to do the story of Holmen-kollen ski jump (TIME, March 12), then went to Stockholm to board a boat that broke through Baltic Sea ice into Turku, Finland. In Helsinki she talked with officials of the 1952 Olympics, took a trip up into Lapland. There among the hospitable Finns she had a wild ride in a reindeer sleigh, skied, watched trotting races on the frozen Kemi River. Though she later divided three weeks between Paris and Brussels, her next long stop was again ski country, this time...
...Finland. 4. Italy...