History|HS 50 years ago, 4 March 1972
Swedish singer star Alice Babs is approaching the age of 50 and still only maintains her great popularity.
Alice and her old gig buddy Svend Asmussen and her band have broken all of Bern’s audience records in Stockholm in recent weeks.
In the midst of their hustle and bustle, Alice and Svend will have time to visit Finland next week as well. They will give a concert at Finlandia Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Alice Babs rose to fame in 1940 and has since made a thousand recordings.
He began his career as a jazz singer, which at the time even infuriated some stubborn Swedes. Jazz performed by a young girl was not considered appropriate by all.
In recent years, she has sung with great success in churches, e.g. Music by Bach and Mozart.
Sipilä on his way to the UN insider
Geneva (Lauri Karén)
Pitchers Deputy Judge Helvi Sipilä on the quality of the place offered to the UN Secretariat is in full swing at the headquarters of the World Organization in both New York and Geneva.
Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim’s offer to Sipilä has plunged the UN’s relatively closed world into perfect boiling.
At the moment, there is not much talk in the UN other than Waldheim’s plans to appoint a “female Mr. UN,” as Sipilä has been branded by an expert source.
As there is not much to think about the creation of new posts at the UN, especially in the current austerity campaign, the focus is, of course, on those places that are currently vacant at the highest levels of the Secretariat.
And then the cups at the end of the visit
North relations between the two countries are like an old couple, acknowledged Prime Minister Rafael Paasio at a dinner hosted in honor of the President of Iceland and Mrs. Kristjan Eldjarn on Friday night.
“We know each other’s habits and habits, and life itself has given mature judgment. Of course, someone out of jealousy may also say that the Nordic countries are deceptive lovers because they share their hearts among so many, ”Paasio thought.
The guests returned to Helsinki for dinner from the Prime Minister and Mrs. Paasio from Riihimäki and Tervakoski, where they visited the Finnish wood and paper industry in the afternoon.
The schedule for the state visit is tight. Deputy Mayor Loimaranta looks at the clock. President Eldjarn and Mayor Aura rushed to drink the champagnes offered at Finlandia Hall.
Statement from the Finland-NL Society on the textbook as well
School Board has asked the Finland-Soviet Union for an opinion on the high school geography textbook written by Laulajainen and Tahvonen, on which Taisto Sinisalo (com) conducted a parliamentary survey last autumn.
A chapter entitled The World Political Map was then ordered to be removed from the book.
The authors rewrote the chapter and the school board asked for two expert opinions on it as usual.
The school board apparently does not consider them sufficient, as it has now also asked the Finnish-Soviet Society to give its opinion.
“It is known that this has never happened before in Finnish conditions,” says head teacher Eino Tahvonen.
Trafficking in human beings takes place at the German border
Both the border between german states has become a thriving center of human trafficking in recent years.
The “kings of the walls” and other traffickers earn hundreds of thousands of marks for relocating refugees to the west.
The “golden finger of the wall” has cost a person heading west an average of 10,000 marks.
A real professional in the field, a Swiss company, claims FIM 25,000-65,000 per refugee.
Traffickers themselves do not do dirty work, they manage and charge fees. Assistant students, adventurers and ordinary criminals act as assistants.
There are no longer any “technical” escapes. Hidden box trucks have been replaced by fake IDs.
The more effectively closed border between the two German states year after year has attracted Western businessmen to speculate on ID cards. East Germans are building new passport control stalls on the border with West Berlin last fall.
The people of Vantaa prefer morning swimming
The people of Vantaa go swimming a lot: A record number of 437,700 visitors visited Tikkurila’s swimming pool last year.
The number is almost 20,000 higher than in the previous year.
On average, 1,346 people visited Tikkurila’s hall every day.
Since 1968, 1,365,000 Vantaa residents have visited the hall.
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The people of Vantaa are especially enthusiastic about morning swimming. Every day from 6 am to 9 pm, 200-300 people go swimming.
A gym will soon be completed in the hall.
Tikkurila’s indoor swimming pool is currently the only one in the Vantaa city hall.
More than 53,000 elementary school students from Vantaa visited Tikkurila’s swimming pool last year. The store has hired two full-time swimming teachers. There are thousands of small Vantaa residents in the elementary and advanced groups.
The holiday town of Saariselkä is starting to rise from the wilderness
Ivalo (HS)
Saariselkä the resort town will begin to rise according to a master plan like the building plan next summer or fall.
Most of the municipal engineering work in the area between the Kaunispää and Kiilopää fells will be completed by the end of next summer.
That is when the rather complete building ban in the area ends.
The master plan prepared by the committee that prepared the holiday city project will initially involve the relocation of about 3,000 inhabitants to the center of Saariselkä.
The size of the master plan is based on the number of 10,000 inhabitants.
Our old movies can still be saved
A ten-year plan to save the surviving old films from destruction, the state film policy committee proposes in a memorandum it left to Minister of Education Pentti Holapa on Friday.
Saving films is expensive – it is estimated to cost around FIM 6 million – but on the other hand it is a matter of decades of neglect.
We are in a worse position than any other European country in preserving film culture, says the Film Policy Committee chaired by Professor Risto Jarva.
Compiled by Kari Lankinen
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