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Temperatures skidded to 25° below at Lethbridge, 23° below at Medicine Hat, 34° below at Penhold, Alberta. Snow fell 5 ft. deep in eastern British Columbia. At Nelson, B.C., plows were trapped in towering drifts. Some 15,000 residents of the Crow's Nest Pass area in the Rockies were isolated for days when snow drifted 12 ft. deep. Coal mines had to shut down. Towns ran short of coal and some were almost out of food...
...grip which crow-beaked Harry Bridges had fastened on Hawaii (TIME, Nov. 4) was loosened last week. His longshoremen's union called off a strike which for eleven weeks had gripped Hawaii's economy by the throat...
...diverse signs: Andrei Vishinsky, in token of the new Russian conciliatory line at the U.N. Assembly, went to Mass; Chou En-lai went to Nanking; an order for removal of the Zeiss factory went to Jena (see FOREIGN NEWS). Noting the signs, the West would do well not to crow in triumph; at best, democracy had won only time to put its own addled house in order, clear up its own inconsistencies and injustices. But in winning that time, the policy of "patience and firmness" to Russia had paid...
...towards them and had taken his seat, that newsmen noticed much about him that was still youthful and perhaps more impressive than even before: the graceful, aquiline head; the quality of finality, of definitive-ness-and his eyes, which one of O'Neill's friends calls "the crow's-nest of his soul...
...crew fished in the Little Big Horn. One morning while fishing they saw a mounted Indian burst through the brush on the water's edge. He pulled up his sweating pony, signaled with his carbine that he was friendly. They looked again and saw that he was a Crow known as Curley, one of the 7th Cavalry's native scouts. Curley hurried aboard the Far West, immediately gave way to "the most violent demonstrations...