Word: icelander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...score of other nations, those who want to buy anything from an office intercom system to a complete telephone exchange are likely to think first of Sweden's L. M. Ericsson Telephone Co. Last week Ericsson engineers were installing new telephone networks from Egypt to Iceland, and in Stockholm, company officials jubilantly announced a $20 million sale of automatic switching equipment to neighboring Denmark...
...Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges for an evening "just in the middle of that steel crisis." But her party honoring the Duke and Duchess of Windsor was a real bomb; the Maxwell Taylors and Ormsby-Gores were there, but the affair was mostly populated by people like the ambassador from Iceland. So bad have things got that the old rivals, Perle and Gwen, now attend one another's parties...
...report also strikes out against the argument that air pollution, rather than cigarettes, causes cancer. It points to Iceland, which has always been smokefree and cancer-free until recent years: since World War 2, when cigarettes were introduced there, lung cancer has, as predicted, shown a sudden and alarming increase...
...they then drink more alcohol than their womenfolk. He also suggests that traditional stoicism may predispose Japanese men to psychosomatic stomach ulcers and later cancers. In the Scandinavian countries, doctors blame high rates of stomach cancer on diets rich in fish, with home-smoked fish particularly suspected in Iceland...
...Canadian citizens to head for their shelters-if they have any. Established four years ago, NORAD has recently acquired new techniques to meet the growing threats. It can now detect almost anything bigger than a bird in the air over some 15 million sq. mi. from Iceland to Midway...