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...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). "Volcano: Birth of an Island" presents stunning scenes of lava erupting from beneath the sea to form the island Surtsey, off the coast of Iceland. Preview of a new series under the general title "Challenge...
...entrepreneurs first met at Oxford, where both were "slightly below average" students. After graduating in 1957, they took a series of jobs, including selling the Encyclopaedia Britannica at U.S. bases in Britain, France and Iceland. Whitfield says that the book-selling stint inspired them to try new ideas. "It taught us about knocking on doors, and that if you keep on going, one is bound to open." Their next ambition is to open some doors in the U.S., where they figure that the leisure business is "100 times bigger" than it is in Britain...
When the ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization last met scarcely five months ago, it hardly seemed worth the trip to Iceland. As Secretary-General Manlio Brosio recalled before the ministers gathered last week in NATO's bleak new heaquarters outside Brussels: "Hopes for détente were so high that they tended to put in doubt the very necessity of a common alliance." That was not the mood in Brussels. In the interim between the semiannual sessions, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia had shattered all illusions of an imminent accommodation with the Russians. Gone were the pleasant...
...King Olav V of Norway and a great-great-grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria; and Sonja Haraldsen, 31, daughter of a prosperous Oslo clothing manufacturer; in Oslo, in a Lutheran ceremony graced by the reigning monarchs of Sweden, Denmark and Belgium and the Presidents of Iceland and Finland...
...born aunt of Queen Elizabeth II; of a brain tumor; in London. Gifted with beauty and intelligence (she spoke eight languages), the princess was haunted by tragedy. Her husband, Prince George, son of Britain's King George V, was killed in 1942 while on a wartime mission to Iceland. In spite of it all, she continued in the public eye, sponsored numerous charities, and served as a globetrotting goodwill ambassador for the Queen...