Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with red tape and interservice tensions in his joint command, four-star Air Force General Earle E. (for Everard) Partridge drew up plans months ago for reorganizing NORAD, the U.S.-Canadian North American Air Defense Command. His principal complaint: he did not have enough authority over assignment of NORAD's Army, Navy and Air Force officers and materiel (TIME, May 19, 1958). But nothing much ever happened about West Pointer Partridge's proposals. Fortnight ago, the Pentagon announced that able "Pat" Partridge, 58, was retiring from the Air Force, effective July 31, after 41 years of service...
...Montreal, the stubby Canadian icebreaker d'Iberville swung into the steel grey current of the St. Lawrence one morning last week to lead a column of ships in a slow parade upstream. D'Iberville's decks swarmed with visitors; her rigging danced with bunting; and ships still at their moorings bellowed hoarse salutes. Otherwise, no one bothered with ceremony; Queen Elizabeth and President Eisenhower will meet in Montreal June 26 for the formal dedication...
...cautious two knots, d'Iberville crept through the approach to the St. Lambert lock. Just astern came the icebreaker Montcalm, and after her four shoebox-shaped canalboats, veterans of the St. Lawrence's old 14-ft. waterways and sentimental favorites to head the procession of Canadian, American and foreign cargo carriers into the seaway...
...Cuban Prime Minister canceled an Ottawa luncheon with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, worked in quick visits to Boston and Montreal, got set to fly this week to Buenos Aires. His mission: to head the Cuban delegation at a meeting of the Committee of 21, appointed by the Organization of American States to study hemisphere development...
Wonders cease, after all-even the wonderful rise of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Last week, in the first all-Canadian hockey final since 1951, Montreal's Canadiens brought the saga to an end, defeating the Leafs 5-3 to become the first team in National Hockey League history to carry off the Stanley Cup four years in a row. But the Canadiens' remarkable accomplishment had to share top billing with the Leafs' improbable achievement in being there at all. Only two months ago the Leafs were sunk in the league cellar, with no prospects of getting...