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Composer Jean (Finlandia) Sibelius, 87, great bald eagle of symphonic music, was named winner of the first international Wihuri Foundation music award (after Millionaire Finnish Shipowner Antti Wihuri) for "promoting the spiritual and economic work of humanity." The $21,250 prize money, added to the generous lifetime annuity he gets from a grateful Finland, should keep him puffing his beloved cigars till the end of his days...
...Finnish subscriber is a bookselling firm called Rautatiekirjakauppa OY, a name which just fitted the 22-character limit. But the same company is also TIME'S newsstand distributor in Finland, and its name and address (Koydenpunojankatu 2. Helsinki) is a constant challenge to the stick-to-it-iveness of typists who handle their correspondence...
...Finnish tanker Wiima, the first ship to try to run jet fuel into embargoed Red China (TIME, Feb. 16), was within 1,500 miles of China when her master received radioed orders from her owners to halt. Early one morning last week, the dirty, dumpy Wiima, loaded to the Plimsoll line with her 7,000-ton cargo, dropped anchor 20 miles from Singapore. "I am waiting," said her skipper, "for further orders from my owners. To run to China is a great risk, but it is my job, and my crew is in good humor...
...order flashed from Washington to U.S. embassies halfway around the world: stop the Wiima. A grimy Finnish tanker loaded at the Rumanian oil port of Constantsa the Wiima was en route for Red China with 7,000 tons of aviation kerosene-enough fuel to give Communist MIG jets over 5,000 flying hours...
Asking Red Rumania to halt the Wiima at dockside was pointless. So the U.S. turned to Finland, whose government dislikes Communism but fears to show it too openly. The Finns bravely promised that no more fuel oil will be shipped to Red China in Finnish bottoms, but they couldn't stop the Wiima: she is immune from government interference while on the high seas...