Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rescue. Ships of all sorts and all nations converged on the scene. The Irish ferryboat, Naomh Eanna, put ashore 300 holiday excursionists at Galway and headed out into the Atlantic. A Canadian destroyer and an Irish corvette turned their prows to the disaster area. The Jules Verne radioed: "We now have aboard eleven bodies: seven women, two men, a little girl and a little...
Venezuela. Last week the government announced that it had negotiated a $289 million loan from a consortium of U.S., British and Canadian banks to put part of the burdensome $1.4 billion debt left by ousted Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez on a businesslike basis...
Married. Marie Dionne, 24, one of four survivors of the famed Canadian quintuplets, who in 1953 entered a convent to become a nun, but left before taking her permanent vows; and Florian Houle, 38, onetime student for the priesthood, and now a clerk at the Quebec Superior Court; in Montreal. Of the living quints, only Yvonne is now unmarried...
...shucking off all but 159 of Rexall's 540 wholly owned stores, Dart also strengthened the company's ties with its franchised U.S. and Canadian druggists, who no longer had to compete with them. The franchisers are Rexall's lifeblood, and Dart has carefully courted them. He urges them to visit the Los Angeles headquarters (1,000 will this year), rolls out the red carpet. When the junketeering Rexallite marches into the lobby, he is surprised to see his name posted in two-inch-high plastic letters on a welcome sign and hear it blared through...
White Wilderness (Buena Vista) is the awesome product of three arduous summers and winters spent by eleven Walt Disney photographers in the Canadian and Alaskan far north. Their cameras caught enough to make any naturalist drool with delight. A polar bear plunges into the icy Arctic seas to give vain chase to a frisky seal; cocky bear cubs attack a one-ton walrus and drive him from his perch; a wolverine, nastiest of all far northern beasts, shrugs off the dive-bomb attacks of an osprey to climb a tall tree and devour a fledgling. Most impressive scene...