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Died. Risto Heikki Ryti, 67, who became Finnish Prime Minister in 1939, led his country through the disastrous Russo-Finnish War, was elected President in 1940; of cancer; in Helsinki. Russia-hating Risto Ryti brought Finland into World War II on the Axis side (he disavowed Naziism, claimed a "defensive war") when Germany invaded Russia (June 1941), ignored Washington's insistence that Finland stop fighting with Russia. One month later Ryti was pressured out by his own Parliament, in 1946 began serving three years of a ten-year hard-labor sentence for "contributing to Finland's entry into...
What Kefauver's journeys did bring was a blizzard of postcards and notes from all points of the world to all parts of the U.S. To Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson came one beginning: "Dear Lyndon. I am at the airport waiting to get on a plane for Helsinki. I want you to know I am thinking about you." In one of the choice seats of a Moscow theater, with Soviet culture cavorting all around him, Estes Kefauver sat scribbling away on his postcards to prospective supporters. And finally, thousands of miles and three months after Moscow...
...MOSCOW TRAVEL was made easier when Pan American World Airways reached "interline agreement" with Soviets' Aeroflot, under which Pan Am passengers can be ticketed direct to Moscow, board Aeroflot planes in Helsinki. U.S. officials believe Russians delayed allowing direct Pan Am flights into Moscow, with reciprocal landing rights in New York for Aeroflot, because Soviets do not want to show their inferior civil aircraft in the West...
...That Me?" The years passed and the same old heights seemed harder to reach, but Dotty Tyler kept jumping. She made her bow to progress by learning the Western roll. But when she got to Helsinki for the 1952 Olympic Games, a pulled abdominal muscle kept her down to 5 ft. 2½ in. and seventh place. Still she jumped−in addition to her old jobs as full-time housewife and part-time secretary. Last year she studied ballet on the theory that it would help. ("It was lots of fun. They wanted us to sing...
...meter butterfly in 1:12.3, just half a second over her own world record. Even if she has to do it all by herself, Shelley is determined to win her country an Olympic gold medal, something no U.S. woman swimmer could do four years ago at Helsinki...