Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canada's ordinarily bland and imperturbable radio and TV network, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., reeled along last week, leaderless and groggy from cumulative misfortune. For 22 years almost nothing happened at the CBC; suddenly, strikes, temperament and scandal popped up all over...
...will order up to 250 Lockheed F-104G Starfighters, to be made under license in Canada. The Starfighter holds both the world's official speed (1,404 m.p.h.) and airplane altitude (91,249 ft.) records, fills the bill for a ground-attack reconnaissance fighter urged on the Canadian Cabinet by NATO's General Lauds Norstad when he visited Ottawa in May. Thus Canada remains four-square among the substantial military supporters of NATO...
...that a tirade is "a sneak attack on a haberdashery," and a syndrome is "a large amphitheater where the ancient Romans used to sin." He dreams moodily of going to Canada and establishing a police force equal in every respect to the Mounties. "I would call them the Royal Canadian Tanta-mounties," writes Wallach, adding with crocodile contrition: "Thoughts like this are basically sterile...
...Great Impostor, by Robert Crichton. The astonishing biography of a rascally and unbalanced genius named Fred Demara Jr., who successfully changed identities with the ease of a child changing daydreams. At various times he appeared (among dozens of other types) as a Canadian navy surgeon, a teacher among Eskimos, a prison warden, and as a member of half a dozen different religious orders...
Even after that, the military life held a fascination for Fred, and in 1951 it offered him his most memorable 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...