Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alphabet Soup. NORAD, under the command of Four-Star Air Force General Earle Partridge, is a joint U.S.-Canadian venture (Partridge's second in command is Canada's Air Marshal C. Roy Slemon) with Air Force, Army and Navy each marked out for specific assignments, e.g., the Navy for seagoing radar pickets, the Air Force for intercepting enemy bombers with aircraft and surface-to-air area defense missiles, the Army for point defense of U.S. cities and bases with its Nike system. To work at all, NORAD must function with electronic precision and supersonic speed. But in practice...
With Manhattan at their dancing feet, 90 remarkable Russians launched a seven-week campaign this week to sweep through eleven other U.S. and Canadian cities across the continent. The invaders: Moscow's phenomenal Moiseyev Dance Company (TIME, April 14). Every night for three weeks the standees jostled four deep behind the Metropolitan Opera's ropes, and even the ushers stared popeyed at the stage. Orchestra seats went on the black market for $80 a pair, but few could be had. Night after night, audiences (total: 79,000, who paid $365,000) rose in cheering ovations. Impresario Sol Hurok...
...audiences have become benumbed, but last week a Canadian eavesdropper on U.S. television looked hard and loosed a cry of outrage. "I never thought I'd live to see the day when a charming, unidentified, beautifully gowned woman would stand in the corner of my living room tearing toilet tissue," complained Vancouver Province's Columnist Eric Nicol last week. He had tuned in on Seattle's Station KOMO just in time to see the commercial for Delsey tissue during the NBC Perry Como show...
Barber's men drove their prisoner straight to the San Francisco airport. A U.S. Border Patrol plane sped him to Vancouver, where cooperative Canadian authorities locked him in jail to await a Europe-bound plane. Three days after his arrest, Heikkila landed at chilly Helsinki with $11.50 in cash, no luggage, no topcoat, found that he had suddenly become internationally famous...
Curtis plans no immediate changes in the magazine, will leave Canadian-born Publisher Eaton and President-Editor Austin in their present jobs. Says Eaton: "We're very happy about the whole thing. In effect, we will be a subsidiary of Curtis...