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Drawn about 1440, probably by a monk in a Swiss scriptorium, the map's startling features are a strikingly accurate delineation of Greenland in the upper left-hand corner and a representation of "Vinland" (the name Vikings from Iceland and Greenland in the 10th century gave a portion of the coast of North America). There, crudely drawn but unmistakable, are Hudson Bay and the Gulf of St. Lawrence...
World War III will break out in 1958. Red China will be admitted to the United Nations in 1959. Walter Reuther will be the Democratic candidate for President in 1964. Davis Strait [between Canada and Greenland] will become strategically crucial to the U.S. in 1963. Richard Nixon will be the Republican presidential candidate...
...DETECTION. ADC has developed a radar network that includes the Pinetree Line along the northern U.S. border, the Mid-Canada Line, the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line at the Arctic Circle, and Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) bases at Clear, Alaska; Thule, Greenland; and Fyling-dales Moor, England. Under development: over-the-horizon radar capable of detecting missiles on actual launching from Russia or China, which will give the U.S. 30 minutes of warning instead of the present...
Before that calamity is averted, there are enough mad puns and sight gags and individual comedy bits to throw any Beatlemaniac into spasms of joy. Spoofing press conferences, the Beatles give every banal question the answer it deserves: "How did you find America?" "Turn left at Greenland." "What do you call that haircut?" "Arthur...
Nonetheless, an agreement permits citizens of the Nordic bloc to live, work, pay taxes and draw welfare benefits anywhere in Scandinavia (including Iceland, which won its independence from Denmark in 1944, Danish-ruled Greenland and the semiautonomous Faroe Islands), and today they virtually have common citizenship. They are linked by similar parliamentary systems, laws, education, a Lutheran background, their hunger for books and food, the absence of class, race or religious frictions or of governmental corruption. A passion for exercise explains the firm figures, clear eyes and radiant complexions of their beautiful women...