Word: canadians
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...Greedy. His lifetime earnings total $434,324, most of which has come from finishing second (23 times) or third (19 times) behind better-known pros. As a matter of fact, the only tour nament Littler has won in nearly four years was last year's Canadian Open -when he shot a 66 on the last round. If he had known what the result of that would be, he might have shot...
Where Is Point X? India's Defense Minister, Y. B. Chavan, has warned Parliament that Pakistan was receiving 200 tanks and 125 planes, including supersonic MIG-19 fighters and 11-28 bombers, from Red China. In addition, Pakistan has recently acquired 90 Canadian-built F-86 Sabres from Iran. Indian officials insist that Pakistan has concluded a secret military pact with Red China. "We are pretty sure that they have an understanding to help each other up to point X," says one external-affairs aide, "but we don't know what point...
...keep everyone guessing about their arrangements with Peking. They say that India has negotiated with Eastern Europe for 600 tanks, 400 heavy guns, 200 tank transporters, and elsewhere for 200 missile-firing supersonic aircraft and submarines, helicopters and antiaircraft missiles. Furthermore, Pakistan has accused India of using its Canadian-built reactor to build an A-bomb-a charge that India vehemently denies...
...therefore with great relief that Canadians last week saw trains moving again after a seven-day strike. Trickling back to work were 119,000 members of 16 unions that had idled the big Canadian Pacific and Canadian National rail roads, as well as five smaller lines. Back also went employees of telegraph systems and essential ferry lines, which are under the striking unions' jurisdiction...
Waiting for that other shoe to drop, Canadians last week counted the dam age from their first major rail strike since 1950. Estimates were that it had cost $ 15 million a day in vanished wages, railroad revenues and losses to business. It had isolated for a time such areas as Prince Edward Island, which depends largely on railroad-owned ferry service to the mainland; it had also caused monumental traffic jams in Montreal, where people who normally use commuter trains flocked to work in cars. Most important, the lack of train service had doubled demands for passenger and cargo space...