Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NOBODY laughed when TIME'S Montreal Bureau Chief Byron Riggan sat down to relax one night last week after TIME published (in its Canadian edition) his story of a reign of terror in Montreal's tenderloin district, but a couple of people frowned. What bothered Riggan was that the frowning men were standing in his doorway, one of them holding a knife. Angered by the story, the two hoodlums began to beat Riggan, then fled leaving the reporter, only mildly injured, with the always welcome certainty that his reporting had an audience. See PRESS, Reader Response...
Last week a U.S.-Canadian committee called the Whooping Crane Advisory Group gathered in Washington to consider some schemes for keeping the whooping crane from going the way of the heath hen and the passenger pigeon. Shelved: a proposal to capture several pairs of cranes and try to breed them in captivity. Left pending: a more modest proposal to capture a lone crane and try to mate it with the one in San Antonio. A difficulty in this scheme: since adult whooping cranes look alike to human eyes, the chances would run only 50-50 that the new pair would...
...Manning's government last week set aside $11 million, about one-third of the revenue it will receive this year from the province's oil and gas boom, for direct distribution to the people of Alberta. Shares this year will amount to about $22 for every adult Canadian citizen with five years' continuous residence in the province. With oil and gas revenues growing steadily, they should be even larger in years to come...
...night Riggan was relaxing in his apartment on Peel Street, in a gracious midtown sector of the city, after a hard week's work on a story about an eruption of shootings and gangster violence in Montreal's east-end tenderloin district; the Canadian edition of TIME carrying Riggan's story had appeared on the newsstands only the day before. Riggan's doorbell rang, and when he opened the door, two rough-looking strangers pushed their way in. "Did you do that article on the East End?" one asked. When Riggan replied that...
Riggan described the attack to police, who advised him to "buy a gun and shoot first" next time. Both major Canadian wire services, Canadian Press and British United Press, picked up the story. It received heavy play in the Montreal newspapers, particularly the evening Herald, which has been waging an indignant anti-hoodlum editorial campaign. Riggan, onetime Birmingham Post-Herald reporter who has been a TIME correspondent in Canada since 1953, was troubled less by his injuries (which were minor) than by regret that he had not made it a better story. "What rankles most," he joked, "is reading...