Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LAWRENCE EUGENE LAYBOURNE, 44, chief of correspondents of the U.S. and Canadian News Service for the past eight years, will take the new post of managing director of TIME International Ltd. of Canada. Larry Laybourne was an experienced reporter on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before he came to TIME in 1944 as Ottawa correspondent. In that post he was one of the most widely traveled newsmen in Canada, covering every province from the Maritimes to British Columbia. He moved to Washington as deputy bureau chief in 1946, was LIFE'S News Bureau chief in New York...
...invaluable surface nonentity, Rudolf Abel had been a successful spy since 1927, spoke fluent English, French, German, was a good hand at electronics, mechanical engineering, photography. With a fake U.S. birth certificate in his pocket, Abel slipped into the U.S. in 1948 at "an unknown point" along the Canadian border. At home in Russia he left his wife, son, married daughter-possibly as insurance of his loyalty. His mission: ferreting out U.S. defense secrets, especially in atomic energy, by a variety of means-including efforts to subvert key U.S. service personnel...
...seemed by talent and temperament to have been a natural-born Hearst-man, he also had the luck to land in Los Angeles in the headiest heyday of the city and of Hearst newspapering. Hired at 19 by Hearst's old Los Angeles Herald (for $7.50 a week). Canadian-born Richardson shrewdly plied the creed he learned as a cub on the old Winnipeg Telegram: "Walk like a newspaperman...
...strung across the top and down both sides of the continent. In case of attack, the DEW line will give a U.S. retaliatory force time to take to the air, and Airmen Partridge and Slemon will look to two southerly radar systems to track the invaders: the $200 million Canadian-built Mid-Canada line, due to start operating by summer's end, and the Pinetree Aircraft Control and Warning network that virtually encloses...
...recent years, Canadian students lead numerically. But also following trends of past years, the Far East is ahead in area totals with 72 students. Japan, next to Britain and Canada in numbers, contributes...