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...party planners from Moscow that there was "scant domestic support" for the propaganda jamboree. Besides, the government added, theaters, stadiums and schools needed for festival functions were all under repair and would not be ready in time to accommodate the visitors. But after a little pressure from Moscow on Finnish President Urho K. Kekkonen, Helsinki's Olympic Stadium suddenly became available for the opening session. City officials offered 36 schools; ample television coverage was promised. A Cabinet statement cautioned the heavily anti-Russian country−particularly its youth organizations−that Finnish independence would be jeopardized by even...
Floating Hotel. In a kind of underground war against the uninvited guests, Finnish students hired away all of Helsinki's charter buses, requiring the Russians to bring in their own fleet. The students booked all the available hotel space so that the Russians, Poles and East Germans were forced to house their delegations aboard ships that had carried them to Finland. Africans from Moscow's Lumumba University traveled second-class by rail, their wallets stuffed with rubles worthless in Finland. From Britain came ban-the-bombers; Cuba dispatched Fidelistas; Guinea sent a troupe of dazzling, costumed dancers. About...
Strauss enjoyed a personal triumph at the Paris Peace Conference. He drafted a letter that Hoover sent to President Wilson urging independence for Finland. When it was granted, the Finnish representative came by with tears in his eyes to thank the young Strauss...
...Detroit's grandiose Cobo Hall this week, four Lutheran bodies-the United Lutheran Church in America (2.500,000), the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church (630,000), the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church (36,000) and the American Evangelical Lutheran Church (25,000)-will simultaneously hold their final conventions as separate bodies. Next morning, the 6,000 delegates and visitors will go back to Cobo Hall for the first Holy Communion service as mem bers of the nation's newest and largest Lutheran body: the Lutheran Church in America. "Unless and until Lutherans are sitting on the same side...
...necessary ("I know of no Negro member of any leading American orchestra"),* Dixon stubbornly harbors an American dream. "I would like to go back," says he, "leading my own symphony." But despite his dreams, home remains a hilltop house outside Frankfurt, where he lives with his second wife-Finnish Baroness and Playwright Mary Mandelin. And Frankfurt, it seems, is where Dixon is likely to stay. "These people," he says, "are really in the music business...