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...Helsinki, Millionaire Shipowner Antti Wihuri, frightened by the sudden glare of publicity, tried to decide whether he should risk his ship and the wrath of the West by ordering the Wiima on, or break his contract with the Communists by ordering her to cancel delivery. At week's end, distraught Owner Wihuri fled to the privacy of a hospital bed, insisting as he went that the cargo which the Wiima took aboard in Red Rumania really wasn't aviation oil, but domestic oil for the lamps of China. "That's what it says in my contract...
...army and win its leaders to a plan for averting bloody warfare in the island. Rising rapidly thereafter from one Latin American post to another, he acted as chargé d'affaires in Buenos Aires in 1946, before moving on to such international hotspots as Belgrade, Shanghai and Helsinki...
...Mathias, Olympic decathalon champion, yesterday received the Associated Press award for male "Athlete of the Year," but said that he felt Horace Ashenfelter's victory in the 3,000 meter steeplechase at Helsinki made the Penn State athlete more deserving of the honor...
...particularly nice. She could speak a little English and did a lot of interpreting for the others. This same girl, according to Hawkins broke out of the Russian camp one night and went out with an Australian diver. They went to a club and in a movie in downtown Helsinki, all against Soviet training rules...
...trophy, I was glad to agree. I can afford to donate $100 to a good cause, but I'd want to think twice about donating $2,000." Finances also had a crippling effect on the U.S. team that finished in fifth place in the international team championships in Helsinki last August. Though headed by Reshevsky, the team was far from the best that could have been placed in the field because many of the top U.S. players could not afford the fare to Finland...