Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general ordered Lieut. Colonel George Flint, Canadian chairman of the Israeli-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission, to go to the spot, bring about a cease-fire and arrange for the evacuation of the wounded. Colonel Flint, a tough, wiry Korean war veteran, had been badly wounded by an exploding mine on Mount Scopus two years before. He set forth immediately for the Arab village of Issawiya, on the Jordanian sector of Mount Scopus. Checking fast, he learned that four members of an Israeli police patrol lay wounded at the edge of the Israeli zone where they had been...
...last message the Canadian sent. Minutes later the walkie-talkie man gasped that Colonel Flint had been hit, and lay unmoving on the slope. Although no more than 20 paces away, U. N. observers radioed that the fire was too heavy to permit any rescue attempt. Hours later, under cover of darkness, they found Colonel Flint's body, and near by the bodies of four Israeli police...
Three years ago, when Canadian-born Mrs. Levine was handed the world-affairs assignment, her first act was to buy 35 TIME subscriptions, one for each student, out of the school budget. The day the first copies came, she went through them page by page with her students. Soon the students began to argue-so vigorously that Mrs. Levine asked them to push their chairs into a huge circle against the wall (see cut) so that the debaters could look one another in the eye while voicing their opinions...
Painters have ransacked the heavens and earth for inspiration, recorded the sea in all its moods, discovered the bird's-eye view centuries before the airplane. Only recently has the artist begun trying to conquer a new world-the vast reaches under the sea. Last month Canadian-born Marcel Cardinal. 38, now busily skindiving for fresh impressions off the French Riviera, exhibited his underwater seascapes in London's Matthiesen Gallery. This week Russell Swanson, 29, a U.S. skindiver, is displaying his water-soaked paintings in Philadelphia's William C. Blood gallery. For both, the underwater world...
...profession noted for temperament, Bellamy has been a strong, group-minded president with a talent for toughness and organization. Equity rules now apply for Canadian theaters and off-Broadway productions. The minimum scale has risen 20% since 1952, and rehearsal salaries in the same period jumped 50%. Woefully outdated agency rules were overhauled for the first time in 30 years, and the union's net worth, just shy of $750,000 when Bellamy took office, now stands at $1,500,000. despite expenditures of more than $300,000 for a new headquarters on West 47th Street...