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Barber's men drove their prisoner straight to the San Francisco airport. A U.S. Border Patrol plane sped him to Vancouver, where cooperative Canadian authorities locked him in jail to await a Europe-bound plane. Three days after his arrest, Heikkila landed at chilly Helsinki with $11.50 in cash, no luggage, no topcoat, found that he had suddenly become internationally famous...
Three days after the Associated Press's manned missile landed in oblivion, the United Press staged its own excursion into the wild blue yonder. Panted a U.P. bulletin from Helsinki: "The state radio here picked up signals early today which indicate Russia may have launched a moon rocket." European radio stations, said U.P., had picked up a "mysterious beep-beep-beep" which lasted three times as long as the signal from an orbiting Sputnik and "suggested the Doppler effect* that would be produced by a transmitter speeding away from the earth...
...Monday morning, until the freeze sets in, nurses at the windows of Helsinki's handsome, modern Children's Clinic can see a pint-sized (under 5 ft.), boyish-looking man step briskly up the drive with a 10- or 15-lb. pike slung over his shoulder. The fisherman is Dr. Arvo Ylppo, passing from his weekend avocation to his lifelong vocation. Ylppo, the only man in Finland to bear the proud title of archiater (chief physician, an honorific designation dating from ancient Greece), is the world's pioneering authority on premature babies...
...twice-married Grandfather Ylppo (his youngest child is only two) turned 70. To honor him, colleagues had established the Ylppo Award, to be given every five years to pediatricians for special achievements. Ylppo himself was a tiny, inconspicuous figure among the frock-coated dignitaries in the great hall of Helsinki University as the Ylppo gold medal was bestowed on Harvard's Professor Clement Smith, outstanding researcher into the breathing mechanism of the newborn (he advises against spanking them). Said Disciple Smith: "It is often stated that Arvo Ylppo invented the premature baby. I doubt this, but it certainly...
Died. Jean Sibelius, 91, world-famed Finnish composer; of a cerebral hemorrhage; near Helsinki (see Music...