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...source of inspiration: late night replays on TV of the '30s movies) and the bright chrome chairs, tables and settees initiated by such Bauhaus architect-designers as Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe; there was even a revival of the laminated blond wood chairs made popular by Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto in the 1940s. What made the trend significant is that such furniture comes not from the avantgarde, relatively low-volume makers such as Knoll Associates and Herman Miller, but from mass manufacturers...
DELIUS: SUMMER EVENING and PRELUDE TO IRMELIN (Seraphim). Sir Thomas Beecham again, magically confecting these drifting, dreaming selections by the blind composer whose works he espoused. Sir Thomas also conducts the tone poem Tapiola by Sibelius, a masterly evocation of the forest god Tapio and his mysterious Finnish woodlands...
Parliament, jumped ahead of the Center (formerly Agrarian) Party and the Communists to become Finland's largest party. That raised the question: What would the Russians say about their old enemies? Just about everybody in Helsinki is convinced that what the Russians told Finnish President Urho K. Kekkonen was that the Social Democrats could form a Cabinet, but only if they included Finland's Red comrades...
...ministries-social welfare, price administration, and communications-to the Reds while keeping six for his party. The Center Party got five ministries and the Radical Socialists one. Many Finns were openly nervous at having the Reds in the Cabinet again, but President Kekkonen was blandly confident about the future. "Finnish democracy," he said, "will continue during the life of this government and thereafter...
...avoiding any internal or external policy that would rile the neighboring Russians. Since 1958, the Finns' readiness to please has even extended to excluding from the Cabinet all Social Democrats, against whom the Russians developed a grudge after World War II. But in last week's elections, Finnish voters were plainly unbothered by Moscow's traditional veto. In the biggest postwar gain in a Finnish election, the Social Democrats won 18 new seats, jumped ahead of the Center (formerly Agrarian) Party and the Communists to become the strongest party, with 56 seats in the 200-seat unicameral...