Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the "Russians smiling at Americans" observed by Skater Jenkins, international rhubarbs kept Olympic diplomats exercised. The Soviet's state-subsidized "amateurs" tried some gamesmanship, hinted that Canadian hockey players were pros. Everyone wanted to start first in the men's giant slalom, before the course was all cut up. An Italian-German hockey game ended in a brawl...
...still low, and the time spot (Sun. 11:30 a.m.) is as bad as ever. Nonetheless, Producer Herridge gave a good account of himself. His opening program was a dramatic enactment of Dostoevsky's short story, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man. Well acted by Canadian John Drainie, it had what TV shows rarely have-an imaginative combination of literate vigor and moral point, plus a quality of probing wonder against which any televiewer could stretch his own mind...
...clinch the title outright, Russia must beat the Canadian's tomorrow in the final game. Some Cortina observers have predicted that Canada will bounce back from its defeat at the hands of the U.S. to beat Russia. In this case, Russia, Canada, and the U.S.A. would end up in a three-way tie based on won-lost records. The title would then be decided on a goals-for and goals-against basis...
...SHAPE'S annual dining-in affair in Paris, glittering with NATO's top brass, slightly offbeat but recognizable supper music rose from the Royal Canadian Signal Corps band under the batons of amateur conductors, choppy General Alfred M. Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, and his first deputy, stabby Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein...
...Canadian dealers, free from SEC rules, began trading the stock several hours before the SEC officially approved the U.S. stock registration. In short order the price soared to $69.25 a share. In U.S. over-the-counter markets (Ford will not go on the New York Stock Exchange until about March 1), it shot to $70.75; on European markets it rose...