Word: immonen
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...came Polish-born Samuel Joshua Singer, 58, a onetime Yeshiva student and a former assistant attorney general of New York State. France sent a professional Scriptural scholar, Roman Catholic Abbe Raymond Seguineau, 42, who is preparing a Bible concordance; Finland's champion was blonde, blue-eyed Irja Immonen, 29, a church worker. The Israeli champion, predictably, was a rabbinical student: tense, bearded Yomtov Krasniansky, 24, who crammed for 15 hours a day before the contest. Calmest of the lot was Graham Mitchell, 29, a Seventh-day Adventist and an accountant from Sydney, Australia...
...Mitchell scored 45 out of a possible 50 points, including eight out of twelve on a complex question about prophetic references to Jerusalem. On that question, the judges gave a nine to Krasniansky, who nonetheless fluffed an easier one, finished second with 44. Third, with 38½, came Irja Immonen...
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