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...test his hypothesis, Dr. Rosen later studied men in two mental hospitals in Finland, where the intake of hard dairy fats and the incidence of heart disease are about the world's highest. Finnish doctors put the men in one hospital on a low-fat diet. After five years, their cholesterol levels and their heartdisease death rate dropped, as expected. In addition, low-fat men in the 50-to-59 age range had more acute hearing than men aged 40 to 49 in the nondiet, high-fat hospital...
...zero weather on a week's trek. His long tenure has provided stability to an otherwise chaotic political scene; Finland has had 50 different governments in 50 years. One reason for the current stability is that Kekkonen has encouraged the Communists to take part in the Finnish Cabinet. Although it consistently polled one-quarter of the votes in Finland's postwar elections, the Communist Party until last year had been kept out of the government because of its attempted coup in 1948. A year ago, Kekkonen allowed it to enter a coalition Cabinet, almost certainly under pressure from...
...heavily forested country, it exports paper, pulp and wood products to 90 lands. Exploiting what is believed to be Europe's largest copper fields, Finland since the end of the war has developed a booming mining and metals industry. Despite its proximity to the East bloc, 80% of Finnish trade heads west, where Britain is its best customer. Finland will thus suffer if Britain enters the Common Market without it, but the Soviets are not likely to encourage Finland to seek closer ties to the mart...
Puntila is a wealthy Finnish landowner and a totally different man when drunk than when sober. When drunk, he is generous, kindly, amorous, democratic and the soul of good fellowship. When sober, he is mean, arrogant, priggish and smoldering with hatred for his fellow man. Puntila sober, as Brecht sees it, is a class-conditioned animal. Puntila drunk is Rousseau's child of instinctive natural goodness. Some richly comic scenes pivot on this personality split. Puntila sober wouldn't dream of fraternizing with his chauffeur Matti; Puntila drunk begs Matti to marry his daughter. Puntila drunk gets engaged...
...snow-clogged clump of obscurity along a single-track Finnish rail line, a group of performers, extras and technicians gathered round a rheumatic old passenger train. "Will that door be closed?" the voice rasped at the director. "With a suitcase in one hand and snowshoes in the other, how the hell do I get the door open to get on the train...