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Died. Otto Vigelmovich Kuusinen, 83, oldest member of the Soviet Union's aging twelve-man Presidium; of cancer; in Moscow. A native Finn, Kuusinen fled to Moscow in 1921 when a Russian-model Bolshevik revolution was crushed in his own country, became secretary of the Comintern, then returned home to rule over fellow Finns as puppet president of the 68,900-sq.-mi. Karelo-Finnish Republic, carved out of the eastern portion of Finland by Russia during World War II. His shrewd bet on Khrushchev in the post-Stalin power struggles won him a return ticket to Moscow...
...Friends of Harvard Sailing have made a major contribution to the solution of this problem by donating 5 Olympic Finn Dinghies, which were delivered to the Harvard Yacht Club last week. Practice in these boats next year should enable several Crimson sailors to develop single-handed skills of championship calibre...
Here comes Leslie Fiedler again, and as the U.S.'s angriest critic, he throws bombs. His biggest blockbuster so far was Love and Death in the American Novel, in which he declared among other things that the best U.S. fiction, from Huckleberry Finn to Hemingway and Faulkner, has shared a theme of repressed homosexuality. But in just four years the shock waves from that book have been absorbed: it already appears on required reading lists at U.S. universities. So now Fiedler returns to the attack...
This competition is part of a national program to select the Finn Monotype squad that will represent the United States at the Tokyo Olympics this summer. In order to make the team, Prince and Lankton will have to place well in four more qualifying regattas against some of the hottest sailors in North America...
...Sunday, eight Harvard single-handed specialists will enter the first elimination round of the O'Day Cup competition, a continental talent search designed to select the United States' Olympic Finn Dinghy team...