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...abrupt diplomatic maneuver that immediately recalled the prelude to the Winter War of 1939-40,* Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko summoned Veteran Finnish Ambassador Eero A. Wuori to the Soviet Foreign Ministry. Somberly. Gromyko handed him a 2,500-word note demanding consultations, under a 1948 mutual assistance treaty, "for ensuring defense of both countries from the threat of a military attack by Western Germany and allied states...
...greet Finland's Kekkonen, accompanied by Jackie, who usually goes along if the guest brings his wife. Whisked off to the White House by helicopter, Kekkonen and his wife glowed as they walked into the state dining room for luncheon: blue and white flowers, the colors of the Finnish flag, graced the tables, and the Marine Corps band played Finlandia. Conspicuously displayed on a nearby table was a gift of small Finnish dolls that Mrs. Kekkonen had earlier sent to Caroline Kennedy. Aware from careful study that Mrs. Kekkonen likes art and antiques, Jackie presented her with...
...Fulbright scholarship to study as an exchange student at West Berlin's Free University. One of his professors characterized the 22-year-old Makinen as "the most serious and hard-working young American we have seen in Berlin in a long time." Makinen spoke fluent German and Finnish (which he had learned from his family), took private lessons in Russian. Short, slight, with corn-silk blond hair cropped close, he was not a big hit with the girls at the university because, as one put it: "You always got the feeling that he would rather be alone...
Faithful to the intentions of Architect Eero Saarinen, who died fortnight ago at 51, his partners will move the offices of Eero Saarinen & Associates from its longtime headquarters in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., to Hamden, Conn., sometime next month. Still on his drawing boards in Bloomfield were the daring, Finnish-born form giver's final designs, among them plans for a 37-story Manhattan headquarters for the Columbia Broadcasting System. "Eero was especially excited about this design," recalled Saarinen Partner John Dinkeloo. "He felt he was going back to the tradition of Louis Sullivan and making a step forward from...
...departed Moscow shortly after his successful orbit for a triumphal trek through Czechoslovakia, a West German wire service marveled: "It's Gagarin's first trip abroad." By last week, three months and several countries later, the newly cosmopolitan cosmonaut had polished his terrestrial technique, suavely met his Finnish public in a preview of this week's speechifying appearance at the Soviet Trade Fair in London...