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...surprises, capped by a concession. Premier Bulganin, indisposed from the "overwork" of the negotiations with Adenauer, was not on hand to greet Finland's 84-year-old President Juho Paasikivi and Premier Urho Kekkonen when they stepped from the Russian plane that had brought them from Helsinki. But two days later it was Bulganin, pale but smiling, who informed the Finnish Premier that because of the "friendly relationship existing between Fmland and the Soviet Union," Russia had decided to return the Porkkala base to the Finns and pull all Russian troops out of their country...
...inevitable, however, that one man would already have his bags virtually packed: Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver, toting his presidential ambitions around the world, is getting ready to attend the Interparliamentary Union meeting at Helsinki, Finland, then make the Moscow trek. He already has his visa in hand...
...Philadelphia, now on its first continental tour, will play in more than a dozen other cities from Lisbon to Helsinki. But its Paris visit was special: it was part of a "Salute to France" that is also offering Parisians the New York City Ballet plus topnotch stage productions of Oklahoma!, Medea and The Skin of Our Teeth.* The U.S. has discovered that American culture is a highly exportable commodity. (In 1953 and 1954 the U.S.S.R. spent $3,000,000 on cultural propaganda in Europe, sent 2,000 Soviet artists into France alone...
...Carl Kaysen, assistant professor of Economics, for research at the London School of Economics, University of London; Theodore M. Mills, research associate, Laboratory of Social Relations, for research at the University of Oslo; and Karl G. Kohn '48' teaching fellow, department of Music, for research in Music, University of Helsinki...
...having landed a prize catch this year: Pianist Artur Rubinstein. Doing the festival rounds even faster than the fleetest-footed music tourist will be a gaggle of other big-name artists. The speed and distance record probably goes to famed German Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who will dash between Scandinavia (Helsinki, Bergen), Switzerland (Lucerne), Belgium (Ostend), France (Aix and Besanqon) and Spain (Granada). Almost as agile will be the U.S.'s own great Philadelphia Orchestra, whose stops will include Lugano, Vienna, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Stockholm, Helsinki...