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...Przewalski horses have few characteristics of the tarpan, so Dr. Heck brought mares from Iceland and Gotland. Surprisingly like tarpans in skull and build, the mares were bred to Przewalski stallions. Although none of the original brood mares was grey, when crossbred mares were bred to crossbred stallions, they occasionally produced tarpanlike, mouse-grey foals. By discarding the foals that inherited Przewalski heads, by selecting a color here, a skull shape there, working always to reproduce the most backward characteristics, Dr. Heck finally got a herd of horses with tarpan build and the typical tarpan color...
...traffic manager for the Schaefer F & M Brewing Co. in New York City. He has two sons, 5 and 3. He would like to see both in West Point one day, but he wants them to make that decision themselves, says: "If they want to go to school in Iceland, it will be all right with...
Pepsi is giving Coke plenty of competition in other foreign countries, now has some 190 franchises for bottling plants ranging from Iceland to Manila. Pepsi's agreement with bottlers is similar to Coca-Cola's: the bottler owns the plant, buys the concentrate from Pepsi...
...Named in honor of Mussolini's Italo Balbo, who set Chicago on its ear in 1933 when he led two dozen seaplanes in a 6,100-mile, 16-day flight from Orbetello, Italy via Amsterdam and Iceland to Chicago, where they landed in perfect formation on Lake Michigan...
Rules of the Game. EPU's billion-dollar monthly turnover resembles nothing so much as an all-night poker game. When the cards were dealt in 1950, every player had a tidy little stack of EPUnits (one unit equals $1), distributed according to size. Iceland was low man with $15 million; the vast sterling area, which was admitted as a single trading partner, got $1.06 billion. If any nation went into debt, its IOUs were good, at least at the beginning. But the rules of the game made it tough on reckless losers: the moreIOUs a nation wrote...