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...highly specialized country depending mainly on exports of fish and timber to balance its foreign trade, Finland is peculiarly susceptible to economic pressure from the Soviet Union, for Russia supplies more than half the Finnish foreign markets, and holds many of their foreign loans. The effects that this pressure can have became graphically clear last fall...
...Finno-Russian relations had become. "I am sure that all reasonable Finns will join me in saying that we cannot have spells of cold. Finland must naturally take into account that vital interests require our neighbor to trust us." Apparently Khrushchev had applied pressure against the free Finnish press, and despite Finnish constitutional guarantee of press freedom, Kekkonen said. "Without restraint and responsibility on the part of the press, our relations will never achieve that degree of confidence our interest deserves...
...like the Americans and tend to call the Russians "smelly barbarians," but, as he puts it, "Relations with the West depend on how she handles relations with the East." The West, he says, tends to regard loans from Rusisa as treason, but without them Finland will not survive. When Finnish ties with the West grow stronger, as they did last fall, Russia exerts economic pressure...
Just five days before his injury, McVey starred against a tough Finland squad at Tampere, tallying two goals in a 5-3 U.S. triumph. Bill Clearly added one marker in a game featuring the "gentle" American style of play against the more rugged Finnish brand. Three days later, Bob Cleary scored once in a losing effort against a Czech team...
Sylvia began to swim competitively when she was seven under the watchful eye of her Finnish-born father, a bear of a man (6 ft., 260 Ibs.) who works as an electrician and doubles as swimming coach for the Berkeley Y.M.C.A. Father Weikko Ruuska drills her incessantly, lumbers up and down the poolside while Sylvia performs, shouting "Giddyap, giddyap!" in a voice that some declare can be heard all the way across San Francisco Bay on clear nights. The Ruuska family practices togetherness. Each morning Mrs. Ruuska drives Sylvia to Berkeley High School on her way to the Y.M.C.A., where...