Word: finnishness
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Divorced. Gregory Peck, 39, lanky-Lincolnesque cinemactor (Roman Holiday, Man with a Million); by Finnish-born Greta Konen Peck, 42, onetime hairdresser to Actress Katharine Cornell; after twelve years of marriage, three children; in Hollywood...
...country has nearly 1,500 orienteering clubs with 189,000 members. All schoolchildren over twelve spend two full days a month practicing the allied arts of map reading, woodsmanship and cross-country running until they become fully oriented. Evangelical Swedes have taught the sport to their Norwegian, Danish and Finnish neighbors, are working hard to spread it to Germany, Britain, Switzerland and Canada. They have little hope for the "car-crazy Americans...
...Minnesota Republican Kristjan Valdimar ("Val") Bjornson, an ex-reporter who can and does orate in Icelandic, Finnish, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, was nominated to run against Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey...
...reform hopes went out. The new, 200-member Eduskunta remained essentially unchanged. Finns gave their Communists more votes (21% against 16% last election), but the same number of seats (43) in the parliament. The Social Democrats picked up one seat (54); the Agrarians gained two (53); the liberal Finnish National Party gained 3 (13); the right-wing Swedish People's lost 2 (13); the Conservatives lost four...
...even though the Russians probably said, as Hannibal: One more victory like this and I am a goner), I was particularly delighted to see that my countrymen licked the Russians in the Nordic winter sports [TIME, March i]; but please do not call the Finnish national anthem "Our Lord" in English. Maamme means "Our Country," and is a translation from Johan Ludvig Runeberg's poem Vart Land . . . But I am too delighted to kick about it, and "Our Lord" may be just as good as Maamme when it comes to sing for the Slobos (Finnish slang word...