Word: icelander
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Soviet skittishness is understandable. Ideologically, the stakes in Baguio City are even higher than they were in Iceland six years ago, when Bobby Fischer came out of Brooklyn to whip Boris Spassky and temporarily break the long Soviet domination of the game that Lenin himself consecrated as "a gymnasium of the mind." Defending the Soviet honor this time is Karpov, a onetime prodigy who inherited the world title in 1975, when Fischer failed to defend it,* and is now a major Soviet hero, complete with membership on the Young Communist League's central committee. But facing...
...Iceland...
...volcanic island of Iceland is roughly the size of Kentucky. Snowfields and glaciers cover more than 13 per cent of the area...
...known that it will approve almost any low-fare offer. Says one CAB official: "The doors are open"-and airlines are walking through. KLM, the Dutch airline, has just proposed a $332 round-trip fare from New York to Amsterdam to start late this month; Iceland's airline is seeking a Chicago-Luxembourg fare of $295 and a New York-Luxembourg price of $275. Surely Freddie Laker has started a movement that will spread and rise...
Died. Bruce C. Heezen, 53, geologist and oceanographer who charted the ocean floor; of an apparent heart attack; while aboard a submarine, off the coast of Iceland. Heezen, who joined the Lament Geological Observatory when it was founded in 1949, helped discover and map the 47,000-mile-long globe-girdling system of ridges and rifts-a landmark in geology. Heezen also studied the role of turbidity currents (underwater rivers of mud) in shaping the contours of the sea floor, and theorized that glassy particles called tektites in the ocean sediment were the result of the collision of meteorites...