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...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Finland's Tug of War," highlighted by the riots accompanying the July 1962 Communist Eighth World Youth Festival in Helsinki. Repeat...
...trademark of the great modern religious assemblies is the "observer" from another faith, peering friendly and fascinated at the proceedings and often heralding a closer relationship. It was the observers who last week gave the Helsinki meeting of the Lutheran World Federation its unique flavor and suggestiveness. On hand was the first delegation ever sent by the Vatican to a conference of a world Protestant organization. The presence of the Roman Catholic observers brought up a basic ecumenical question: Is there a weakening in the historic split between Rome and the original Protestant church...
Without trying to say too much on too little evidence, it seems clear that Yevtushenko is basically a hireling of the Soviet government, bent on emulating the toadying tactics of Ehrenburg. At the World Youth Festival in Helsinki, where he paraded around in loud Italian silk shirts, Yevtushenko became so incensed at the anti-Communist demonstrations he composed a poem on the spot denouncing the "pimple-faced, gum chewing" students. "If I had not been a Communist before, I would have become one tonight," he said...
...closest love was supposed to be her horse Geronimo, and Erik spent most of his time with a tiny red Saab. Still they kept bumping into each other on all the Motor Rally routes from Monte Carlo to Africa. In Helsinki, Pat Moss, 28, Britain's top woman driver and sister of Ace Driver Stirling Moss, announced her engagement to king-sized (6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs.) Swedish Champ Erik Carlsson, 33, twice winner of the Monte Carlo Rally. Though they have yet to fix the date-"very busy driving"-they firmly denied suggestions they might form...
...past, it would seem the Soviet campaign is breaking down because of lack of funds. For instance, at Helsinki a number of Africans were sent to the Festival by Russia with only nonconvertible srubles as spending money, and many were forced to live in crowded quarters miles away from the center of the city