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...cent. "You have to keep your eyes firmly on your goal," he says, "and try not to waver." Last week Beatty's flying feet carried him closer than ever before to his elusive goal: the fastest mile in history. Before a crowd of 8,000 in Helsinki's Olympic Stadium, Jim Beatty ran the mile in 3 min. 56.3 sec., best time ever recorded by an American, and just 1.9 seconds off the world record set last January by New Zealand's Peter Snell...
From all over the world, 10,000 delegates went to the Red-run World Youth Festival in Helsinki last week, and a terrible time...
...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 the smallest "pinpricks" that would create...
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...
...anti-Russian bitterness that lies beneath the veneer of Finnish neutrality. It is a vivid memory that many of the delegates will be taking home with them when the festival ends this week. Not that all of them are going home; 14 East German delegates saw their opportunity in Helsinki and defected to the West...