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...executive committee of the Young Democratic Club yesterday voted unanimously to condemn the forthcoming World Youth Festival. The YDCHR resolution called the Festival, scheduled for July 27-Aug. 5 in Helsinki, Finland, "an obvious attempt by the world Communist movement to misrepresent world student opinion a meeting, ostensibly non-partisan, but in reality dominated and controlled by the Communists...
...resolution charged finally that the Finnish government of Prime Minister Sukselainen had strongly questioned the advisability of holding the Festival in Helsinki...
President Urho K. Kekkonen. winding up an 18-day official visit to the U.S.. got the news in Hawaii, calmly talked it over on the beach, dispatched his Foreign Minister to Helsinki ahead of schedule. Then he donned a pair of fire-red bathing trunks and went...
Finally. Silvester overcame a disqualifying tendency to step out of the circle, began to find his form. In Helsinki, he hit 194 ft. 6 in., just 2 ft. ½ in. off the world record set in 1959 by Poland's Edmund Piatkowski. Fortnight ago in Frankfurt, he broke the record convincingly with a heave of 198 ft. 7 in. Not content with last week's record toss in Brussels.Silvester intends to stay in the throwing ring until he has flung the discus past that magic barrier...
...drop out soon after the 26-mile, 385-yd. grind began, and Boston wags suggested that the Exeter Street finish line should be rechristened the Finnish line. Finnish runners had won the B.A.A. Marathon four times in the past seven years, and 1959 Winner Eino Oksanen. a hawk-nosed Helsinki detective, was back as a heavy favorite. Slim U.S. hopes were pinned to familiar Veteran John J. Kelley, 30, a Groton, Conn., schoolteacher who won in 1957 but has a habit of running a strong second...