Word: iceland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flight follows a great circle route, somewhat extended to keep over international waters. From Havana, the plane flies northeast over the Atlantic parallel to the U.S. coastline; roughly opposite Norfolk, Va., it zigs to a course between Greenland and Iceland to a point beyond the North Cape, then zags southward toward Murmansk-its first landfall after Havana. Flying time to Moscow: 13 hr. :55 min. Bucking headwinds in the other direction, the flight takes 18 hours, and even with a refueling stop at Murmansk the planes often reach Havana with a perilously low fuel reserve...
...romantic-sounding beat: Europe's Common Market. But by their authoritative reporting of the political and economic experiments that are changing Europe, they have made the daily blue-green bulletins of Agence Europe required reading for a blue-chip list of more than 2,000 subscribers from Iceland to Japan...
...Straws. Steinar of Hlidar, a typical Laxness peasant-hero, grows restive with life on his small farm, where he works on a stone wall begun by his greatgrandfather and regales his children with fairy tales. He longs for spiritual challenge. A Mormon missionary, one of many who came to Iceland in the late 19th century, provides it. The missionary urges him to seek a paradise on the "other side of the moon" in Utah, where great principles are lived out in hardship and suffering: "You must renounce home and family and possessions. That is how to be a Mormon...
...Iceland. An Air Defense Command unit of fighter-interceptor planes - purely defensive. Also a Navy antisubmarine installation...
...campuses. Apart from a few foreigners, the first 100 students are all the children of Americans stationed everywhere from France, Germany and Spain to Iceland, Malaya and Viet...