Word: laplander
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...Weary of beauty-queen contests, Jämsä strapped on a corset, fluffed up his flowing, brown hair, and entered himself in the annual Maid of the North contest in Rovaniemi, capital of Finnish Lapland. "I didn't drink then, was much slimmer, and managed to turn out really quite a beautiful face," recalls Jämsä. Well padded, he looked fine in the required Finnish national costume and evening dress, got through an interview with the judges by pleading hoarseness and hiding his hands under net gloves. The judges gave him third prize...
...negativist philosophy of Axel Hagerstrom, who taught that metaphysics is dishonest and only matter real. The influence lingers: when Hammarskjold is talking business, he is as hard as stone. Yet the "Great Deflater," as an old friend calls Hammarskjold, writes intense romantic lyrics and goes roaming through the Lapland mountains in search of a mystic ideal. In many men, such a dichotomy could lead to complications. But Hammarskjold's mind seems to have found a satisfactory synthesis. His philosophy is complex but its basic rule is clear: "self-surrender" to an ideal which can be made reality through faith...
Valley of the Eagles--An unusual spectacle filmed in Lapland, featuring killer eagles and reindeer stampeding over mountain cliffs. At the Metropolitan...
...Sunday comic supplements are well aware of Pogo's plight. They know that for week atfer week he has had to listen to a story about Hadle & Gristle, furry godmommas, alligator-shaped princesses and whatnot. They also know that Pago tried to escape yesterday--pleading an appointment in Lapland but that he could not because his interlocutor his shirt to the seat...
...tankers, Morris has received neither subpoena power nor the privilege to immunize certain witnesses from prosecution. The investigation has dragged on for so long that it looks as if Morris' chances to tackle the Internal Revenue Department are as remote as Pogo's fulfilling his "date in Lapland to trim a reindeer...