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There was little doubt in Washington or Ottawa that the agreement would be approved. Said a top Canadian official: "Canada [will be] a 49th state as far as war production is concerned...
Jerry Porter took 19th place in the slalom, with Houser 31st, Captain Bill Wasserman 35th, and John Hart, normally a cross-country and jump man, 49th. Harvard could field only a three-man team in the 50-meter jump. Hart jumped 110 and 105 feet to place 28th. Wasserman and Captain-elect Jim Weaver followed in 35th and 40th positions respectively...
...interest in the idea to suspicion and outright hostility. British statesmen listened to the scheme with the look of deliberate patience reserved for small children and the harmlessly insane. Down at the heel though she was, Britain was still a world power. Was someone suggesting that she become a 49th state...
Last week the House: ¶After 34 years of thinking about it, voted (186 to 146) to make Alaska the 49th state in the union, then approved Hawaii's 30-year-old appeal for statehood (which it had approved and the Senate had rejected in the 80th Congress). ¶| Approved a bill establishing a National Science Foundation, after first insisting on an FBI check for all employees and scholarship holders...
After that, he was out of the news. Suffering from a weakened heart, Big Ed took things easy at his own estate and at the Greenwich, Conn, estate of his wife's brother, Juan Trippe, president of Pan American Airways. There this week, nine days after his 49th birthday, death came to friendly Ed Stettinius...