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...past year, the overall cost-of-living index has risen a jarring 35% in Buenos Aires, 10% in Rome, 6% in Stockholm, 5% in Lisbon and Istanbul. Stockholm now leads all other cities in the cost of food, followed by Tokyo, Oslo, Helsinki, Paris and Rome; New York ranks all the way down to seventh on the list. Hotel rates are highest in Paris and Mexico City ($26 a day for a single), but a stay at the best hotels in Johannesburg and Lisbon costs only $7 a night...
City for $400, in New York for $365 The growing cost of such miscellaneous items as cabs, phones and tips also empties the businessman's pockets. Taxi fares have risen 12% in Helsinki over the past year, about 8% in New York. Tax hikes have raised the price of a bottle of Scotch in Helsinki by 5% to a sobering $11 a fifth. In Helsinki, one British businessman complained to the Financial Times, eating out is "costing $84 a year in tips to cloakroom attendants for bowler hat and umbrella...
Preparations really began in 1957, when then-Mayor Nathan Phillips launched an international design contest for the new city hall, which drew 520 entries from 42 countries. Five distinguished judges, including the late Eero Saarinen, finally gave the nod to Helsinki's Viljo Revell, and for good reason. Architecture was then struggling free from the glass and steel web of anonymous buildings popularized by Mies van der Rohe. With the inspiration of Le Corbusier's massive concrete government buildings in Chandigarh and Niemeyer's skyward-lofting Brasilia, architects at last felt free to conceive of civic structures...
...June, France's Michel Jazy broke Snell's one-mile record by .5 sec. Stung, Snell hopped off for Europe to recapture his position. In Helsinki he raced in a 1,500-meter contest. He lost. In London earlier this month, he tried to win back the mile record, finished seventh, barely scraping in under the four-minute mark. Two days later he was beaten in Dublin by two British milers. In Czechoslovakia he lost two races. In Oslo he was beaten at 800 meters. Two weeks ago in Berlin, Oregon's Jim Grelle, whom Snell...
...France's Michel Jazy, 29: the 5,000-meter run in 13 min. 27.6 sec., paring 2 sec. from his own European mark; at Helsinki's World Games. Continuing a fantastic, month-long campaign that has seen him smash seven European and world records, including the mile (TIME, June 18), Jazy took this occasion to show that he could run against topflight competition as well as against the clock in carefully staged set-piece races. Ranged against him at Helsinki was a raft of world stars, among them Australia's Ron Clarke and U.S. Olympic Winner...