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...group of sports-conscious Detroiters asked the city to build a $14,500,000 stadium with 104,000 seats and a removable roof. Reason: it would provide a handy site for the 1952 Olympic Games if Finland (the host apparent) is unable to hold them" [TIME...
Setting his sights lower, he estimated the potential food production from 10% of the podsols (300 million acres) and 20% of the tropical red soils (one billion acres). If the podsols were cultivated by methods now used in Finland, and the tropical soils by methods used in the Philippines (neither of them tops in farming techniques), their production, added to that of present croplands efficiently cultivated, would jump the world's total food to more than twice the 1960 target...
...texts on mob fighting and strike tactics. In stolen moments together at Moscow's Lux Hotel, Tuure's whispered tales of the beauties of mob violence made Hertta's head spin. In 1926 the pair were wed. Eight years later Hertta was sent to her native Finland to practice Tuure's preaching and was promptly clapped in jail...
...emerged in 1939 heart-whole and fancy free. In Moscow Tuure's political star had faded, but in Finland a scholarly young saboteur named Yrjö Leino soon caught Hertta's attention. In 1945, after years of close friendship, Hertta married Yrjö. "I wasn't able to before," she explained, "because of our being in jail." Leino went on to become Finland's Communist Minister of the Interior...
...last week, after Leino had openly criticized Russia and suggested that the Communists use less violent tactics, Hertta had had enough. She picked up bag & baggage and moved out of his apartment to go and live with her mother. She still had friends: who had turned up in Finland but first husband Tuure, once again in high Kremlin favor and wearing the insignia of a Red army general. Last week he was in Helsinki, busily plotting a wave of new strikes to blanket Finland...