Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western scientists who have rustled into the folds of the Iron Curtain, few vanished more completely than Italian-born Nuclear Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo. In late 1950 Pontecorvo, his head and perhaps his luggage crammed with hydrogen-bomb secrets gleaned from his U.S., Canadian and British research, landed in Helsinki without a Finnish visa. He cheerfully surrendered his passport, was not impolitely detained. Within an hour, Pontecorvo, his Swedish-born wife and their three children dropped out of sight. But passengers on the airline bus which had hauled the Pontecorvo family into the Finnish capital recalled that, as the bus entered...
...committee felt O'Malley's case resembled that of Colorado sophomore George deRappard, a Canadian hockey star who transferred to Colorado from a junior college in January...
...Crimson's hockey squad of all Massachusetts players will be an unusual sight at Colorado Springs tonight. Approximately 80 per cent of the other three teams is Canadian-born and all have been to the Tournament at least one other year, with Michigan attending all seven previous championships and winning four times...
NCAA Champions in 1950, the Tigers will again be predominantly Canadian, with only four out of 18 on the squad from the States. The team's blue-line unit will be led by Captain Phil Hilton, a strong candidate as All-American defenseman. Colorado's attack centers about forward Clare Smith, second in the League's scoring race...
...tournament got under way in Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Krefeld and Cologne, the Vs had more than the Russians between them and the championship. Finland, Poland, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and the U.S. had also entered teams. Each of them had 36 games to go, but the Canadians began by making it look easy. In Dortmund's Westphalenhalle Arena they trounced the U.S., 12-1. Outside, in the cold German winter, a red-bereted corporal of the Canadian occupation army blasted on a bugle while his buddies jeered: "Yankees go home, and learn to play hockey...