Word: icelander
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...romantic-sounding beat: Europe's Common Market. But by their authoritative reporting of the political and economic experiments that are changing Europe, they have made the daily blue-green bulletins of Agence Europe required reading for a blue-chip list of more than 2,000 subscribers from Iceland to Japan...
...Straws. Steinar of Hlidar, a typical Laxness peasant-hero, grows restive with life on his small farm, where he works on a stone wall begun by his greatgrandfather and regales his children with fairy tales. He longs for spiritual challenge. A Mormon missionary, one of many who came to Iceland in the late 19th century, provides it. The missionary urges him to seek a paradise on the "other side of the moon" in Utah, where great principles are lived out in hardship and suffering: "You must renounce home and family and possessions. That is how to be a Mormon...
...Iceland. An Air Defense Command unit of fighter-interceptor planes - purely defensive. Also a Navy antisubmarine installation...
...campuses. Apart from a few foreigners, the first 100 students are all the children of Americans stationed everywhere from France, Germany and Spain to Iceland, Malaya and Viet...
...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...