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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...
Alexander Johannesson, persident of the University of Reykjavik, Iceland, and professor of Philology, will give a lecture in Emerson 211 tonight...
This is the 11th and last American university that Johannesson will visit under the auspices of the U.S. State Department. His three week tour of the country ends with his return to Iceland on Tuesday...
...merger gives Pan Am 2,502 extra route miles and an opportunity to capture 33% of the transatlantic traffic. Pan Am will now stop in ten additional cities in Iceland, Scotland, Germany, Holland and Scandinavia, will go to Paris and Rome within a month. With the help of the 18 four-engine airplanes (DC-4s, Stratocruisers and Constellations) that it acquired in the deal, Pan Am stepped up weekly transatlantic crossings from 22 to 29. Juan Trippe still did not think its 144-plane fleet big enough. To replace aging DC-4s on the South American run, Pan Am last...
Bulging Briefcase. From 1931 to 1939, like many another officer of his training-minded corps, Smith was almost constantly in school, as teacher or student. In the spring of 1941, a lieutenant colonel, he was given command of a battalion and shipped off with three other Marine battalions to Iceland. The browned-off marines in Iceland solemnly assessed the place as the "sinkhole of the world," but there was never a word of complaint in Smith's letters to his family...