Word: scandinavianism
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...attacks on the Finns in 1959 for including anti-Soviet politicians in their Cabinet-Kekkonen does indeed go to great pains to avoid antagonizing the Russians. His government deplored the U.S. invasion of Cambodia but made no mention of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. It torpedoed Nordek, the proposed Scandinavian common market, mainly because the Soviets were suspicious of it. Even domestic politics reflects this concern. In Finland's March elections, the Conservatives finished in second place (out of eight parties). But when a five-party coalition was finally formed last week with longtime Foreign Minister Ahti Karjalainen...
...that Russian delegate with the gray hair?" a 27-year-old Scandinavian confided to a reporter at the United Nations World Youth Assembly. "He was an oldtimer when I was at my first conference five years...
...life: wife (Eva Marie Saint) in Connecticut; mistress (Janis Young) in Manhattan. Wilson has trouble peddling his ad illustrations-possibly because they look as if they were traced from a 1945 copy of the Saturday Evening Post. His wife has a combination of eros and vulnerability rarely seen outside Scandinavian movies, but Wilson prefers his hostile inamorata-possibly because she has almost no dialogue. To combat the strains of shuttling, the uneasy rider takes on huge loads of alcohol and begins alienating wife, children, colleagues and himself...
Most of the Western jumpers are Scandinavian, and will undoubtedly be the skiers to beat Saturday. "You rarely hear a word of English at the top of the jumping hill." said Harvard coach Bill Mc-Collom yesterday. "It's rather disconcerting" he added...
...young Italian students, Teresa Marinuzzi, 22, and Valtenio Tacchi, 23, handcuffed themselves to a railing in Moscow's downtown TSUM department store and tossed similar leaflets at astonished shoppers. The episode was almost identical with a protest staged last October at the GUM department store, for which two Scandinavian students were deported...