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...come to see these operations for themselves. Since the end of World War II, when TIME'S international editions succeeded the special wartime editions for the armed forces abroad, our editorial offices have become a magnet for foreign journalists. They have come to us from, among other places, Helsinki and Karachi, Turin and Cali...
...Western scientists who have rustled into the folds of the Iron Curtain, few vanished more completely than Italian-born Nuclear Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo. In late 1950 Pontecorvo, his head and perhaps his luggage crammed with hydrogen-bomb secrets gleaned from his U.S., Canadian and British research, landed in Helsinki without a Finnish visa. He cheerfully surrendered his passport, was not impolitely detained. Within an hour, Pontecorvo, his Swedish-born wife and their three children dropped out of sight. But passengers on the airline bus which had hauled the Pontecorvo family into the Finnish capital recalled that, as the bus entered...
Perhaps this is because Brooks is an Olympic coach. For 14 years he was official swimming coach for the Bermuda Athletic Association, and as such he took teams to Berlin in 1936, London in 1948, and Helsinki...
Studying the histories of 39 Helsinki hospital patients who died of coronary occlusion after stays of seven to 42 days, Dr. Jarvinen discovered that six of them, subject to severe emotional stress, had died during or after a physician's visit. Among the cases...
...picture, which straightforwardly takes him from his high-school days in Tulare, Calif, to the 1948 Olympic Games in London, where, at 17, he surprised the world by winning the decathlon; then on to Stanford, where he played some first-class football; and finally to the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, where he won the decathlon a second time...