Word: icelander
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...stage to front-page news. During the past year, Pompidou, now 61, has gained at least 20 Ibs., ballooning from bourgeois rotundity to sickly flabbiness. His complexion has become blotchy, and he has begun to walk stiffly and clumsily. Descending from his jet to meet with President Nixon in Iceland late last month, he stumbled and nearly fell, though he was clinging firmly to both handrails...
...leaders' seven hours of talks in Reykjavik, it seemed fairly clear that the U.S. President had indeed gone somewhat more than halfway-and that he might have to go much further if the "Year of Europe" is to materialize. The Iceland talks were not a failure, but neither did they produce the kind of meeting of minds needed if Nixon is to achieve a grand European summit this fall...
...first evening in Reykjavik, he wandered out with a single Icelandic escort and walked around chatting amiably with other strollers. The local press did not make much of his one bad gaffe. Speaking with reporters on the plane while flying from Washington to Iceland, Nixon had referred to the island nation as "you'll pardon the expression, a Godforsaken place...
...Iceland was to yield the top-level "political decisions" that would provide the U.S. with a framework for the forthcoming technical negotiations on trade, troops and monetary reform...
...Before his expeditions to Iceland and Paris, Henry Kissinger tarried in Manhattan long enough to celebrate his 50th birthday. TV's Barbara Walters toasted his contribution to Women's Lib. He has, she said, "made careers for countless women." Peter Peterson, former Secretary of Commerce, claimed that he had seen Henry cross 1973 A.D. off an official document and write 50 A.K. Peterson's remark, replied Kissinger, "illustrated the closeness and warmth that has characterized the White House...