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...only private, nonsubsidized European airline, Icelandic is a homegrown business, owned by 700 stockholders in Iceland. Beginning in 1944, when two young Icelanders who had flown with Canada's R.C.A.F. trudged across the country's largest glacier to salvage a crashed Stinson seaplane, it started out as a creaky air service between coastal fishing villages, sent its first DC-4 from Reykjavik to Copenhagen in 1947. It got a transatlantic permit from the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board in 1952, and chose Nick Craig, a Pan American sales executive, as board chairman, president and chief executive. "I did everything...
...Operation Deep Freeze found the continent a harsh, hauntingly beautiful and, above all, strange land. The snow crystals that drift down over its great central plateau seem dry as sand. Yet, because there is little ablation-return of moisture to the atmosphere-this light precipitation has become a glacier of up to a mile or more in depth. Under its own weight the ice moves glacially, spilling down off the plateau, flowing imperceptibly but inexorably toward the sea, squeezing through valleys, crawling over hills, plunging down the sides of mountains in great frozen cataracts. What it does not bury...
...added, however, that "events are moving too fast in the international community to allow for the glacier-like speed with which protection of some important human rights has been developing in some states...
...cardbinieri dragging the bottom of Lake Orta on the Swiss-Italian border in June 1950 were looking for the body of a man who had been dead six years. It seemed unlikely that they would succeed. But from the lake's cold, glacier-fed depths came a corpse in what looked like surprisingly good repair. Legal delays prevented its examination for four days, and in those days it suffered more visible change than it had during its long immersion. Even so, the U.S. Army's Pathologist Walter Lentino was able to make some positive identifications...
...thousand years ago, says Dr. Godwin, the last remnants of the Pleistocene glacier held out in the higher mountains of northern Britain. Plant remains of this date show that the country was open, arctic tundra with scattered patches of silver birch. Sea level was much lower. Peat dredged from the bottom of the North Sea shows that the southern two-thirds of its basin was filled by a chilly swamp connecting Britain with the continent, from Denmark to France...