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...second decathlon day dawned murky and cold, the friendly Finns, concerned with Bob's performance, gave him a helper. A "wonderful little Finnish official," whose name Bob could not pronounce, trailed Mathias with a scoring book, told him "just how well I had to do to break the record." That was all Tulare's No. 1 citizen needed. He won his 110-meter high hurdle heat and the discus throw. Still 99 points behind his record pace, he took third in the pole vault at 13 ft. 1.47 in., his best vault by 0.72 in. Bob was urged...
...this week trooped some 6,000 athletes and officials of 67 nations,* parading around the rain-soaked, brick-red track past the presidential box and the stands packed with 70,000 applauding spectators. In its traditional position, the Greek team led the parade. Behind it, in order of the Finnish alphabet, marched the others: India's athletes, in light green and white flannels and gay turbans; the Russians, men in cream-colored flannels, women in bright blue blazers; the 368-member U.S. team: and the Finns, bringing up the rear as Olympic hosts. Then out of a stadium tunnel...
...Finland is a Western nation." Finland refused Marshall Plan aid on the ground that that would be entering an alliance against Russia, but it accepted a U.S. loan. When a newsman remarked that this was a pretty fine distinction, Premier Kekkonen replied: "Well, we live on fine distinctions." A Finnish reporter recently described his country's new, elongated currency as "dollar-type," referring only to its size and shape. His editor blue-penciled the phrase : "We don't want to be needlessly offensive to the Russians...
...Finnish 1,000-mark bill is engraved with a picture from mythology showing a band of naked people standing on a shore and looking wistfully out to sea. Finns today joke that the picture shows them waving to the last reparation ship. It is only a joke, however, for industrious Finland has emerged from doing the impossible, not naked and bankrupt, but riding on a wave of prosperity. Last year the sky-high prices for lumber and pulp all over the world sparked an export boom that more than doubled Finland's gold reserves and gave her a whopping...
...Olympic village at Käpylä (where all but the women's contingents, the Russian team and their satellites were quartered), clouds of Finnish autograph hunters buzzed around the visiting athletes like hungry mosquitoes: "Sign pliss. Your name, pliss." Next to the big U.S. team (350 men and women), neatly dressed in their blue Olympic blazers, grey slacks and gabardine hats, the squad that attracted the most attention was the closemouthed Russian team, some 400 strong, which was constantly convoyed by 300 stony-faced "officials." Making their first Olympic appearance since the Czarist days of 1912 (when they...