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...traveler can find an approved doctor for his sniffles or turista or worse in Amman (lordan), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) or Reykjavik (Iceland), as well as in such obvious tourist meccas as Paris (where the American Hospital is cooperating), Rome and Athens. The Soviet Union is not yet covered...
Since then, Surgeon Shulman has treated almost 200 cases of burns the same way. Medical texts ignore the cold-water treatment for burns, but Dr. Shulman found that it was a remedy in frontier America, and it is the traditional treatment in Iceland. Now, in Postgraduate Medicine, Reykjavik's Dr. Ofeigur J. Ofeigsson makes firm recommendations for first aid in burns...
Last week, from both London and Reykjavik, came announcements that the 2½-year feud had ended. The terms: Iceland gets its twelve-mile limit, but British fishermen are permitted a three-year period of grace, during which they may fish-at certain times, at certain locations -within six miles of Iceland's coast. If Iceland's fishermen catch the fish that the British have been getting, the pact eventually should mean an additional $28 million a year for its one-crop economy...
...came the mud-puddle incident : four civilians confidently entered a restricted area of the Keflavik base, were challenged by a U.S. sentry and ordered to lie flat on the muddy ground for 15 minutes while a sergeant was summoned. Last week every daily newspaper in the capital city of Reykjavik was spread with flaming headlines. The "intruders" proved to be two officials of the Icelandic Civil Aviation Administration and two American pilots bound for a hangar where the Americans' plane was being repaired. A U.S. spokesman hastily explained that it was a mistake on both sides: the area where...
When news of this bloodless defeat reached Iceland's capital of Reykjavik, outraged citizens massed before the residence of Britain's Ambassador Andrew G. Gilchrist, began pitching stones and bricks. Inside, Ambassador Gilchrist, a 48-year-old Scot with a Vandyke beard, reacted in the approved pukka sahib tradition. He put on a bagpipe recording to drown out the shouts from the street, and remarked of the mob's marksmanship that "if they were cricket players, they would be better shots." He further daunted the unruly natives by walking his dog at the height of the uproar...