Word: icelandic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Francis Fitz Randolph, a 62-year-old Yaleman (Skull and Bones) who collects first editions, likes to go fishing in such far-off places as Iceland and Norway. A lawyer turned investment banker, he is little known outside Wall Street. But there Fisherman Randolph has a prize catch on the end of his line. As boss of Manhattan's Tri-Continental Group, composed of six investment trusts with assets of nearly $200 million, Randolph votes huge blocks of stock in scores of top U.S. companies. His two biggest trusts are Tri-Continental Corp. ($86 million in assets) and Selected...
...building its strength and keeping on a day-to-day alert to retaliate against attack on the U.S. Then the movie joins 17 officers and men aboard a B-36, stays with them on a 9,000-mile simulated combat flight on a 39-hour route from Texas to Iceland and back. Target: Detroit...
...Iceland: Nothing; even the cops are unarmed...
...resolution: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Thailand, Turkey, Union of South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela...
Flying homeward, Ike stopped off at the two remaining NATO countries on his schedule: soldierless but strategically important Iceland, and Canada, where he conferred with cabinet members. From Ottawa Ike called the Pentagon. Said he: "I'm sick and I'm tired. Don't let anybody bother me until I get some rest'." In 22 days he had covered nearly 20,000 miles, visited twelve countries...