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...Greenwich, England, Noel Coward was fined ?1 for driving his white Jaguar 40 m.p.h. in a 30-mi. zone. The celebrated wit's unwitty line: "My speedometer wasn't working...
...eccentric-styled Czechoslovakian army captain who runs as if every step would be his last. After shattering Olympic marks in the 5,000-and 10,000-meter runs, he capped his own climax by breaking the Olympic marathon record the first & only time he ever ran the tortuous (26 mi. 385 yd.) distance. The biggest Olympic disappointment was Japan's top-rated swimming team, which copped only two silver medals. Even famed Hironoshin ("the Flying Fish") Furuhashi straggled in a bad last in the 400-meter free-style final...
Porkkala is the name of a 150-sq. mi. enclave just west of Helsinki (see map) that Finland was forced to "lease" to Stalin by the Russian-dictated peace treaty of 1947. There on Finnish soil, behind a secrecy no Finn is al lowed to penetrate, the Russians maintain a division of troops and train their long-range guns on the water lanes to Leningrad. The Russians allow Finnish trains from Helsinki to Turku to pass through Porkkala, but Russian locomotives (actually U.S.-made, sent under lend-lease) pull them, and the windows are sealed with sheet steel...
There are other indignities forced upon them by victorious Russia: Petsamo (Pechenga) in the north and timber-rich Finnish Karelia on the east, both annexed by Russia in 1944. The Finns prefer to think and talk of the land they have left, vast (130,000 sq. mi.), rugged and beautiful, stretching high into the Arctic, where the sun shines day & night in summertime. It is a land of 60,000 gleaming lakes set in dark forests that sprawl over 80,000 square miles, a land of granite-strewn farms stingy in yield, of busy, sober towns and endless stretches...
...floors above, Senator Lodge is presiding over Eisenhower GHQ. The place is plastered with 300 Ike pictures and blossoming with other Ike propaganda, including a necktie (worn by Press Secretary Jim Hagerty) that proclaims "Yo prefiero a Ike," "I mi piace Ike," "Für mich Ike," and so on, in 27 languages, all told...