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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Royal Fending. With Prime Minister and Mrs. John Diefenbaker and a party of other notables from Ottawa and Washington,* Ike and Mamie joined their hosts aboard the blue-hulled yacht Britannia for a 31-mile, five-hour cruise through the lower channels and first three locks of the seaway-which have actually been in use for nine weeks (TIME...
...hurried to the side of John Diefenbaker to demonstrate with thumb and forefinger how close the ship had come to scarring its paint. Above the lock Elizabeth and Philip left the ship to> escort Ike and Mamie to their waiting Marine Corps helicopter; 20 minutes later the Eisenhowers were aboard the Columbine III, homeward bound for Washington...
...crucial area, so rich is it in oil. The descendants of a persecuted splinter group of Moslems that took refuge in their present inaccessible home back in the Middle Ages, they do not allow their wives to unveil even for the dentist. But they have been shrewd in jumping aboard the oil bandwagon, and French officials estimate that there are already at least a score of franc billionaires among the Mozabites. "France never has and never will tamper with your faith and customs," Soustelle told the bearded oldsters. And to a group of young oil truckers he said...
...role: Surgeon Lieut. Joseph Cyr of the Royal Canadian Navy. Demara's medical training consisted of a basic course in the U.S. Navy's hospital school, ten months as a hospital orderly in Boston, amplified by voracious reading of medical texts. Nevertheless, when assigned to Korean waters aboard the destroyer Cayuga, he performed such prodigies of battle surgery -an emergency amputation, the extraction of a bullet from the heart sac itself -that Cyr's story was published in Canadian newspapers. The real Dr. Cyr heard about...
...Lawrence Seaway (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). For latecomers, a tape of Ike and the Queen. For everyone, a newsy tour of the seaway aboard a British freighter...