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...Koivisto wins the presidency...
...touch was perfect. While they were counting the votes, he was playing a rugged game of volleyball, which was exactly the kind of unassuming conduct that the Finns had grown to expect of him and which they much admire. When the tally was completed, Mauno Koivisto, 58, the son of a carpenter and the holder of a Ph.D. in sociology, last week won 50.1% of the vote, enough to be assured of becoming his country's next President when Finland's 301-member electoral college meets this week. Then Koivisto will officially succeed Urho Kaleva Kekkonen...
...Koivisto is the first Social Democrat to be elected President in Finland, but party labels mean little in a country in which all major factions back the welfare state. What won the election for Koivisto was his likable image as a modest and occasionally irreverent individualist. Once a dock worker, he rose to become governor of the powerful Bank of Finland. Koivisto served two terms as Prime Minister, appointed by a man who was his opposite in temperament, the autocratic and short-tempered Kekkonen...
Last week Swedish Prime Minister Tage Erlander, a major supporter of Nordek, met at his country estate with President Urho Kekkonen and Prime Minister Mauno Koivisto of Finland. Their decision-to push ahead with the year-old negotiations to bring Nordek into being-reflected a realization that, despite Charles de Gaulle's departure, Europe is far from becoming one grand market...
...week's end the Russians claimed to have reached the railroad station, but all around the station, in the heart of the city, the weary Finns still held out. They have no hope of holding the city long. Viipuri was condemned when the Finns abandoned Koivisto Fortress, blowing up their heaviest artillery and leaving the Russians a clear road across the frozen Gulf of Finland to outflank the city (TIME, March 4). Last week the Russians took this road. Another force drove past Viipuri to the northeast. And along what was left of three railroads the main body...