Word: icelander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quick, strategic stock purchases. Though he built Slater, Walker into a financial holding company that last year (the latest estimate) had a market value of some $360 million, he remained largely unknown to the public until he put up $125,000 in prize money to lure Bobby Fischer to Iceland to compete against Boris Spassky...
...Portugal, the public euphoria that followed the overthrow of the Caetano dictatorship is gradually giving way to an atmosphere of uncertainty and some political tension. Denmark's minority government could fall this week when the legislature votes on a controversial proposal to slash welfare benefits. Even tiny Iceland, once an island of stability 500 miles from Britain out in the North Atlantic, has caught the spreading governmental malaise. After the country's ruling three-party coalition split up last week over how to deal with a rate of inflation that could reach 42% this year, Premier Olafur...
...based his precise location on what seemed to be large stone walk-ways leading from the rivers, similar to those built by the Northmen in Iceland and Greenland. Those stones were pushed aside for highways in the 1940s and have never been dated. Perhaps this is a sinister plot to play with history perpetrated by a powerful Cambridge ethnic group, one that would rather celebrate Columbus...
...government controls the supply of paper and since World War II has granted the press important tax concessions. Whatever the motive, most French newsmen managed to ignore the ail too visible symptoms of Pompidou's ill health until the President's meeting with Richard Nixon in Iceland last May. When American journalists reported on Pompidou's sickly appearance and speculated on the cause, French publications began to take note of it. Revealing photos were widely published, and some commentators openly called on the government to provide information about the President's health. None was forthcoming...
While Pompidou's health has long been unmentionable to French spokesmen, the fact is that President Nixon was so alarmed by the French President's appearance last summer when the two of them held a minisummit in Iceland that the U.S. embassy in Paris assigned a man to a Pompidou watch. He saw what other curious observers have noted too: gradually Pompidou has reduced his schedule to almost a blank page. When he addressed the Gaullist Party faithful in Poitiers three weeks ago, precautions were taken to preserve his strength. An armchair was placed close...