Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carl Pomerance, a "regional traveler" for SDS, had been invited by a Canadian University Student Assembly to speak on the American student movement. On Thursday he talked to a crowd of several hundred about the "Campus Worker-Student Alliance...
Last week the Canadian government bowed to pressure and banned the killing of month-old seal pups in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The new policy means that the killing will now be restricted to seals over a month old. After one month the pups reach the "beater" stage, when they turn from white to brown and, leaving their ice floes, "beat" their way north to the Arctic. Hunters may use guns or arrows but may no longer club seals of any age to death...
...boom was set off by a small but promising nickel find in the sand and spinifex of Western Australia. It attracted particular attention because of the worldwide nickel shortage, made worse this summer when Canadian nickel miners went on strike. A tiny Australian mining company called Poseidon started the speculative mania late in September. A drill on its 1,100-acre lease in desolate Windarra churned up traces of nickel ore. After the company announced assays of 3.5% nickel, its stock, which had sold earlier in the year for 50? a share, jumped to $35. "In sober fact...
...Canadian recruiting program has rocketed Cornell to Ivy dominance and national prominence. The Big Red was the NCAA champion three years ago, and it will be a frequent participant at the nationals as long as Harkness recruits successfully. It isn't really in the Ivy League tradition to raid Canada, but it isn't illegal either. Holding early practice is illegal, however, and if the Ivy League is to remain true to its principles of moderate athletic emphasis Harkness must be stopped...
Running Amok. Belatedly, the Quebec provincial government called out 600 infantrymen and 300 Royal Canadian Mounted Police. It also rammed through an emergency law ordering police and firemen back to duty by midnight under threat of heavy penalties, including fines of up to $100 a day per striker. Soon after midnight, the cops began reappearing, made more than 60 arrests...