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Kekkonen knew from experience the perils of direct confrontation with the Soviet bear, who stares at Finland across 788 miles of common border. Born the eldest son of a forestry worker, the man who became a lawyer and national high-jump champion was Interior Minister during the Winter War of 1939-40. Finland, after resisting valiantly, was eventually overwhelmed in that conflict by the Soviet Union, which seized 17,640 square miles of territory and evicted 12% of Finland's population. Following Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, Finland sided with Nazi Germany against Moscow...
...slumping, Congress seems in no mood this year to give Reagan either the $13 billion in supplementary budget cuts or the $3 billion in new taxes that he proposed in September. Last week, for example, the Republican-controlled Senate, by a 87-to-8 vote, approved a fiscal 1982 Interior Department appropriations bill giving 19 separate departmental agencies and bureaus close to $17 billion in total spending power for the year, or $1.6 billion more than Reagan himself had proposed...
...nauseum about the "intimacy" of luxury home furnishings, and despite its name, it has little to do with architecture. But Architectural Digest aims to dazzle the eye, not challenge the mind. Each issue contains about a dozen lavish photo tours of opulent homes that have been transformed by top interior decorators. Average decorating budget: $200,000. Frequent peeks into celebrity homes add to the vicarious thrills. In recent years Digest readers have visited the likes of Ali MacGraw, Robert Redford, Liza Minnelli and Barbra Streisand. Says Rense: "Digest is an elitist magazine. But I don't think there...
...according to Joseph Fontaine, 48, president of the Sierra Club, the largest citizens' petition ever presented to Congress. Its message: "Interior Secretary James Watt must go." Last week the 240,000-member environmental organization, backed by representatives of similar "green vote" groups, brought that petition to the steps of the Capitol. There the 50 bundles, containing some 1.1 million names, were accepted by House Majority Leader Tip O'Neill and California Democratic Senator Alan Cranston. As for the subject of all this wrath? Watt, 43, was out on the hustings staging his own "green" campaign-drumming up Republican...
...culture hipped on youth, face-lifting is becoming an economic survival tool. Says Robert Stevenson, 58, a New York corporate interior designer who does not want to be forced into retirement: "If you're a dynamo but have gray hair, you won't get the job." Uplift by scalpel is not to white-collar occupations, either. A surgeon says, "It is Mr. and Mrs. America who shop at K mart are getting face-liftings." New York cosmetic surgeons report a new class of patients - policemen, sanitation workers and truckers...