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...travel and telegraph impresario he was known in governments around the world as the impresario of transport and electronics for that modern phenomenon of communication called the White House press corps. It was Manning who helped keep the news umbilical hooked up to the presidency, from Lahore to Reykjavik. He traveled 4 million miles in the line of duty...
...days before Freddie Laker and price warfare brought down the cost of air travel across the Atlantic, tiny Icelandic Airlines was the favorite of backpacking students and budget-minded businessmen. Americans going to Europe did not mind if flights often had long layovers at the windswept airport in Reykjavik, Iceland, or if they landed only in backwater Luxembourg. Since Icelandic was not a member of the fare-setting International Air Transport Association, the "hippie airline," as it was nicknamed, hopped the Atlantic for as much as $153 less than major carriers...
...Business continued to boom after the line switched to nonstop jet service, which was still at cut rates. In 1977 Icelandic carried 240,000 passengers. But then came Freddie Laker's Skytrain flights and subsequent price slashing by the major airlines. Budget flyers could now skip both Reykjavik and Luxembourg and still save money. After losses of $15 million last year, Icelandair, its official name since 1979, slashed the number of transatlantic flights from 23 to 2 per week and laid off 900 of its 1,700 employees. Though it will continue European and domestic flights with...
...only whaling company, went into the Icelandic courts to request an injunction that would restrain McTaggart and company from further interference with its four whalers. But Greenpeace was not ready to call it quits. Early one morning, the anti-whalers' mother ship, Rainbow Warrior* slipped out of Reykjavik in hopes of making it to the whaling grounds. Said McTaggart: "I think we've been so successful they will have to arrest us." Not quite. During the first attempt, an Icelandic gunboat simply signaled them back just a few miles beyond the harbor entrance. But when the Rainbow Warrior...