Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past year, Canadians pondered the same question about their Prime Minister that U.S. citizens asked of their President: Will he run in the next election? Last week President Eisenhower, looking more and more like a candidate, nevertheless kept the guessing game going (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But in Canada Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent ended the suspense. The 73-year-old Canadian leader passed the word to political intimates that he had definitely made up his mind to go for a third term in the federal election expected...
During World War II the Royal Canadian Air Force auxiliary sparked Canada's 200,000-man air buildup; its pilots trained and led combat squadrons overseas. But today its 5,000 part-time airmen, flying on weekends and vacations, must make do with Harvard trainers, prop-driven Mustangs, and a few obsolescent Vampire jets. Without making any official announcement, Canada's defense chiefs have decided to count out the weekend warriors as an essential part of the nation's shield against atomic attack...
...last week, 900,000 Canadian youngsters had been inoculated without a single proved case of polio resulting from the vaccine. The greatest and most significant technical difference between U.S. and Canadian methods was that all vaccinations in Canada had been given by subcutaneous (under the skin) injection. This greatly lessened the likelihood that paralytic polio would be provoked by jaBbing a needle into muscle and nerves...
...Toronto last week, as Canadian medicos got together with their British cousins at the joint meetings of British, Canadian and Ontario medical associations, they found it hard not to be smug. (The British are not using the Salk vaccine at all, except in a limited test.) Admitted the Canadians gallantly: "With a larger number of children vaccinated, we might have got into trouble, too." Said Dr. Andrew J. Rhodes, one of Canada's top polio experts: "A safe and effective vaccine can be produced. [But] a great deal of work has yet to be done...
...Moscow almost useless. By last week, with the Communists stepping up their "peace offensive," Russia had more non-Communist correspondents than at any time since World War II (except for such special occasions as the Foreign Ministers' conferences of 1945 and 1947). More than 40 U.S., British, French, Canadian, German and Indian newsmen were covering Russia, many on guided tours. The German and Indian reporters were obviously invited as part of the stepped-up Communist campaign to woo their countries politically. At least three of the U.S. correspondents (New York Herald Tribune's Frank Kelley, New York Post...