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Half Slave. The crowd was strangely quiet, almost as chilly as the Finns who looked Khrushchev over in Helsinki last June. As the inevitable flaxen-haired girls skipped forward with their whopping bouquets, little groups here and there tried to spark pro-Soviet chants, but their efforts fell flat. Hastily, a band struck up a tune, the old nationalist Prussian Glory march. As Khrushchev finally launched into a speech, a husky Negro, resplendent in billowing orange tribal robes, burst through police lines, capered up to the platform and reached out at him. Kicked and pummeled back into the crowd...
...five o'clock one afternoon last week, two stocky figures in ill-fitting topcoats and battered felt hats stepped out of a shabby green railway coach onto the red-carpeted platform of Helsinki Station. After an exchange of platitudes with Finnish Premier V. J. Sukselainen, resplendent in top hat and cutaway, the elder of the two visitors shouted out a greeting to a Finnish army honor guard. Like well-drilled children in an old-fashioned schoolroom, the soldiers chorused back: "Hyvaapaivaa, Herra Paaminesteri-Good day, Mr. Prime Minister." For the first time since their visit to Britain more than...
...inspected housing developments and a children's hospital, strode through driving rain to lay a wreath on the grave of Finland's late President Juho Paasikivi*. For the first 24 hours they even belied their well-earned reputation for heavy tippling. At the first state banquet in Helsinki, high-living Nikita Khrushchev limited himself to one Martini, and goateed Premier Bulganin clung firmly to a glass of orange juice, whirling his forefinger alongside his temple to indicate that stronger liquids made him dizzy. What little serious drinking took place was done by dour Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
...Unhappily for B. and K., the dignity bit failed to impress the Finns any more than the jollity bit had impressed the British (TIME. April 30, 1956). The crowds that gathered to watch the comings and goings of the Soviet leaders were small and unsmiling. When Khrushchev, riding through Helsinki in an open car, waved to the sidewalk throngs, nol one hand waved in reply, and many a back was pointedly turned. By the end of their first day in Finland, the Russians were so inured to being ignored that when at last a dozen Finns applauded, both Bulganin...
...Olympic Peninsula where he grew up and made him "Honored Citizen" at the Mason County forest festival. Rusty had been gone from the woods for more than 40 years. His crews have won the world's top rowing honors-from collegiate championships at Poughkeepsie to Olympic laurels at Helsinki-but to everyone's surprise he insisted that he is not the least bit tired. He likes his present job as Navy coach too much to quit. "I never know my youngsters until they come down to the boathouse to try out for the crew," he told...