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...Willis hove in sight of the foreign-service officer's lifetime goal: a mission of one's own. President Eisenhower nominated her to be Ambassador to Switzerland (where women do not have a vote and take no part in government). Now counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki, she will be the sixth woman, and the first unmarried woman, to become a U.S. chief of mission...
...Helsinki last summer, a big (6 ft. 3 in., 210 lbs.) Negro high-school boy from Plainfield, N.J. trudged wearily into a locker room in the Olympic stadium. Worn down by the two-day competition in the Olympics' most demanding test, Decathlon Man Milton Campbell gave World Champion Bob Mathias a congratulatory backslap, then flopped on a cot. Little stirred by his own feat in becoming Olympic runner-up, Milt moaned: "I'd rather die than go through that again...
...since the Olympics at Helsinki last summer, when they whipped the Russians in the final quarter mile, had Navy's undefeated crew faced such a challenge. Navy, sprint champions of the East at 2,000 meters, faced the rangy oarsmen of the University of Washington, undefeated this season and determined to revenge their poor showing in last year's Olympic trials. Moreover, the three-mile distance of the Syracuse Regatta was made to order for long-ranging Washington, while Navy had not raced beyond a mile and three quarters all season. Posted conspicuously in the Washington boathouse...
...Navy varsity kept the Adams Cup, which it won here last spring on its way to Helsinki...
...Finnish subscriber is a bookselling firm called Rautatiekirjakauppa OY, a name which just fitted the 22-character limit. But the same company is also TIME'S newsstand distributor in Finland, and its name and address (Koydenpunojankatu 2. Helsinki) is a constant challenge to the stick-to-it-iveness of typists who handle their correspondence...