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Looking at the cold statistics in the record books, U.S. Olympic Track Team Chairman Pincus Sober said: "We will face an uphill struggle to amass as many gold medals as we did in Helsinki (14) in 1952 or at Melbourne...
...really be as good as .they say? The question last week prompted a capacity crowd to jam Helsinki's Conservatory of Music to hear a famed but little-recorded visiting pianist play for the first time outside Russia. The answer came quickly. Without even waiting for the welcoming applause to die away, Sviatoslav Richter launched into Beethoven's Sonata in D, and both audience and critics knew almost at once that they were listening to one of the world's great pianists at the top of his form...
...Helsinki, Finland...
Last week a grinning Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan was in Helsinki for the signing of the new fiveyear, $1.5 billion trade pact. Terms: Finland will continue to send icebreakers and papermaking machinery to Russia, in return for Soviet wheat, coal, oil, autos. The Soviet-bloc share of Finnish trade will remain a vital 22%. Asked whether Russo-Finnish relations would be hurt if the Finns should join their British and Scandinavian trading partners in the proposed Western "Outer Seven" bloc, Mikoyan returned a wary answer. "That is a matter for the government of Finland," he said, "which will take...
Gathering Place. To keep on working while enjoying a change of scene, Aalto maintains three bases of operation. One is an office in downtown Helsinki, another his studio on the outskirts, which he calls "the fortification of quiet"; still another is his island hideaway, where he can plunge into the lake on a moment's notice with his pretty new wife Elissa. She is an architect herself (as was his first wife, Aino, who died in 1949), works on his staff...