Word: icelanders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Irving has served as ambassador to Iceland and as deputy assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs. He entered the government in 1946 as an economist in the Bureau of the Budget, and joined the State Department...
...from New York City but soon came to grief and earth in the Catskills. In all, some 17 transatlantic tries had been made before last week's successful flight, and seven lives lost. Abruzzo and Anderson themselves tried it last September but had to come down off Iceland, defeated, like the others, by the distance and the weather...
...Soviet skittishness is understandable. Ideologically, the stakes in Baguio City are even higher than they were in Iceland six years ago, when Bobby Fischer came out of Brooklyn to whip Boris Spassky and temporarily break the long Soviet domination of the game that Lenin himself consecrated as "a gymnasium of the mind." Defending the Soviet honor this time is Karpov, a onetime prodigy who inherited the world title in 1975, when Fischer failed to defend it,* and is now a major Soviet hero, complete with membership on the Young Communist League's central committee. But facing...
...Iceland...
...volcanic island of Iceland is roughly the size of Kentucky. Snowfields and glaciers cover more than 13 per cent of the area...