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Blended smoothly into the bright multicolored mosaic of the United Nations last week were the blue and yellow of Sweden, the blue, red and white of Iceland, and the black, red and green stripes of Afghanistan, all newly admitted to the U.N. A. Hosayn Aziz of Afghanistan was first to pen his signature to the instrument of adherence, followed by Thor Thors, Iceland's Minister to the U.S., and Oesten Unden, Foreign Minister of Sweden. Elected to the Security Council as temporary members were Belgium, Colombia and Syria; they will replace The Netherlands, Mexico and Egypt...
Combining as they did the sparkling intimacy of a lady's jewelry box and (at their best) the monumental force of Gothic cathedral sculpture, Nottingham alabasters were sought after from Italy to Iceland-until "idolatry"-hating Oliver Cromwell...
...well--represent all of the services, some of the overseas theaters, and both the castes. They were nurses, photographic technicians, radar experts, Link trainer instructors, and at least one spent her time chatting with the boys at a local PX. Cynthia Brott, Radcliffe '48, spent two years overseas in Iceland and England wielding needled and syringe with the Army Nurse Corps. Anne Kennedy, one of the Wellesley's more nature women, ground out the war at Wright Field, Ohio, as a photographic technician in an optical research laboratory. Each was at her alma matter before the war and both...
...Iceland Bases. Pummeled in the Russian press and chided by Icelanders for hanging on to its wartime bases in Iceland, the U.S. last week gave them up. It agreed to get its military personnel out of Iceland in six months, turn the war-built bases over to the infant republic. The only exception: U.S. civilians will man Keflavik airdrome, and U.S. planes may use it as long as occupation forces are in Germany. But pro-Soviet Icelanders immediately boggled even at that...
...Andrei Gromyko had been caught smiling (see cut); 2) after a 5,500-mile journey, the Mongol delegates had arrived. The cause of Gromyko's smile: U.S. comic strips. Occasion of the Mongols' visit: the question of Outer Mongolia's admission (together with Albania, Portugal, Eire, Iceland, Sweden, Afghanistan and Trans-Jordan) to the U.N. Result (after a stormy exchange between U.S. Delegate Herschel Vespasian Johnson and an unsmiling Gromyko) : three admissions (Afghanistan, Sweden, Iceland); the rest were rejected...