Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Main interest in the meet will be focussed upon a possible duel for first place between Reider and Ron Hillier, B.U.'s Canadian marathon champion...
Explaining his government's decision, St. Laurent pointed out that Egypt, with airfields only ten minutes' flying time from Tel Aviv, has bought some 200 MIG-15 jet fighters and 40 to 50 Ilyushin jet bombers from the Soviet Union. Even with her new Canadian-built Sabres and French Mysteres, Israel will still be numerically outclassed by the Egyptian Air Force, hopes to equip a third squadron with 24 additional top-flight jet interceptors wherever she can buy them...
...Canadian politics ever looked the part of a Prime Minister more completely-or wanted the job more earnestly-than handsome, patrician George Alexander Drew, 62. After resigning as Premier of Ontario in 1948 to take over as national leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, Drew fought hard through two national election campaigns. But the Liberals, who combined a New Dealish program of social reform with a hard-headed regard for balanced budgets, rolled over the Tories for their fourth and fifth straight national victories, relegating Drew to the gadfly role of Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons...
...clash over "legitimate newsgathering rights" resulted last week in a decision by U.S., Canadian and European newsreel and TV film groups to boycott the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. The newsreelers wanted to use up to nine minutes a day of footage filmed by their own cameras. But the Australians refused, fearing that the edge would be taken off commercial resale of Olympics movies. Instead, they offered to hand out three minutes of their own film daily to all comers. The film pool resented being limited to a handout, announced that they would make no movies of the Olympics...
...Canada's tiny (5 ft. 1 in., 115 lbs.) Marene Stewart, 22, plugged away at her steady, par-nudging game. Ahead, husky JoAnne Gunderson, 17, national junior champion, came all unstrung with tournament jitters. Marlene-onetime British amateur women's champion (1953), four-time winner of the Canadian open (1951, '54, '55, '56) and current U.S. intercollegiate titleholder-passed her strawberry-blonde competitor on the 35th hole, won 2 and 1, became the first Canadian woman to take home the U.S. title...