Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Partridge succeeded Weyland as Far East Air Force commander in chief in 1954. Three years later, as head of the U.S.-Canadian interservice North American Air Defense Command, he tried to clean up the classic NORAD interservice rivalry, succeeded in getting the Joint Chiefs to back up the NORAD commander with some (but, by Partridge's lights, not enough) additional powers...
Travel-weary but pleased. Queen Elizabeth II last week came to the end of her six-week Canadian tour, at the historic British fortress of Halifax. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and 18 Cabinet members were on hand to see her off in a whirl of meetings, state banquets and one final piece of business: the appointment of a new Governor General to succeed scholarly Vincent Massey, 72, who retires this fall after 7½ years of service...
...viceroy. Elizabeth chose the first French Canadian ever to be appointed to the post. He is Major General George Philias Vanier, 71, a courtly soldier-diplomat whose family settled in Quebec in 1681. A World War I hero who lost a leg at the Cherisy campaign, Vanier was Canada's first Ambassador to France, has lived quietly in retirement since...
...than Boston's. The summers are brief but bright, and on the North's few tilled acres, the warming sun, shining 20 hours a day, produces dahlias as big as dinner plates, carrots a foot long. The dry air slows decay. In 1954 the crew of the Canadian icebreaker Labrador found tins of perfectly preserved mutton, figs, and Normandy pippins left on Dealy Island...
...were interested in his wheeler-dealing around Rio, where he tried to promote stock in a plastic company and import seven cars as personal baggage (including Cadillacs worth $14,000 each in Rio). As the police frisked Birrell, they found a fresh charge in his left coat pocket: a Canadian passport he had used for false entry into Brazil only a week before...