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Dead-Reckoning Navigator. The most serious source of danger is essentially the same in 1967 as it was in 1927: bad weather. On the favorite summertime route-from the U.S. to Sept lies, Canada to Goose Bay to Greenland to Iceland to Scotland-sudden storms blow up without warning; ice can form on wing surfaces at the drop of a single degree in temperature, and the approach to such key mid-flight havens as Greenland's fiord-fringed Narsarssuak airfield (known to thousands of World War II flyers as Bluie West One) is as often as not socked...
...Austria, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, West Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey...
...anniversary of their country's independence this year with a series of national celebrations. The festivities began this week with a parade of Finland's modest armed forces through the capital of Helsinki, whose distinction is that it is the world's second northernmost capital (after Iceland's Reykjavik). While the navy's Russian-built destroyers rode at anchor in the harbor, the army's British tanks and French artillery rolled through the streets toward Senate Square, where officials honored the memory of Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, who half a century...
...FISH CAN SING, by Halldor Laxness. The foggy, fusty Iceland of a few generations ago, beautifully evoked by a Nobel prizewinner who loves best those fish in humankind who swim against the tide...
Shared Zest. Author Laxness admits that he is a rarity in Iceland: an enthusiast. His passions have carried him into and out of both the Roman Catholic Church and the Communist Party. His politics appear rarely in his books, but his poetry often. In this novel, Laxness touches with song the most unlikely events, from Jon of Skagi's self-appointment as custodian of the town lavatory to a great debate that raged in Iceland about whether the establishment of barbershops should be permitted. As a storyteller, Laxness shares with Brazil's Jorge Amado (TIME...