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...pudgy, crop-headed longtime Finnish statesman and Finland's President from 1946 to 1956, who negotiated three peace treaties with Russia (1920, 1940, 1944), successfully guided his country along a tortuous path between excessive appeasement and foolhardy provocation of its carnivorous neighbor; of a heart attack; in Helsinki. Born Johan August Hellsten, he changed his Swedish name to its Finnish equivalent before he entered politics, served twice as Finnish Premier (1918, 1944-46) before running for President. In 1955 he made his seventh official journey to the Kremlin1, negotiated a 20-year mutual defense pact, wangled a promise that...
...toughest Olympic test of all had been all but conceded to U.C.L.A.'s World Record Holder Rafer Johnson. The U.S. Navy's and Indiana U.'s Milt Campbell, runner-up to 1952 Champion Bob Mathias at Helsinki, and an even huskier broth of a boy four years later, had other ideas. "The good Lord," said Campbell, had told him to try the decathlon rather than the hurdles, and the young (23) Negro poured it on in almost every event. Only a surprisingly poor showing in the pole vault (11 ft. 1¾ in.) kept Campbell from breaking...
...quickly became a suspenseful duel between the U.S. and Russia. The U.S. fielded the best team ever assembled- including such 1952 Olympic champions as Shotputter Parry O'Brien (see below). Soviet Russia, shut out of all the gold medals in men's track at the Helsinki Olympics, sent to Australia a well-trained and determined squad. Even in basketball, a game so thoroughly American that Moscow has yet to claim it was really invented somewhere back of the Urals, the Soviets showed power...
...Olympics. In the case of the Russians' state-supported team, this attitude has been fairly obvious. But a similar feeling on the part of the Americans has been mainfested in such statements as "We are going to surprise them here and win more gold medals than we did at Helsinki" by J. Lyman Bingham, executive director of the U.S. Olympic Committee...
...most capitals only satellite diplomats, a few neutralists, some Egyptians turned up-and wherever he appeared, the loneliest man was the Hungarian, shunned and shunning. "I hope they choke on their caviar!" said a demonstrator outside the Russian embassy in Stockholm. A Finnish protocol officer, required to attend in Helsinki, insisted: "I'm not thirsty. I'm not hungry." A pamphlet distributed by students outside the Russian embassy in Washington taunted: "Try our new cocktail . . . freshly mixed in Hungary. It's spiced with children's tears and blood...