Word: eventer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that arrangements for the St. Lawrence Seaway dedication were being handled by the Canadian, British and U.S. governments, Canadians indignantly asked what the devil the British government had to do with it. Elizabeth is visiting their shores as Queen of Canada, and nothing else. For most of them the event is joyful and important. Sudbury, Ont. has been torn for weeks over whether or not the Queen's route should take her past the old people's home. A note of outrage was sounded in the Montreal Gazette when an indignant royalist reader protested against Canada...
...quietly impressive ceremony last week, Julius Adams Stratton, 58, was formally installed as eleventh president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The meaning of the event was hinted at by one of the several important inaugural guests, President Lee A. DuBridge of California Institute of Technology, who warmly called rival M.I.T. "the leading college of science and engineering in the world...
...existence by 1) refusing to accept launching pads for U.S. intermediate-range missiles in France, 2) failing to integrate France's strategic air defense into an overall NATO system, 3) denouncing an agreement that obligated France to put a third of its Mediterranean fleet under NATO command in event...
...round of honor-guard reviews, cornerstone layings, garden parties. Tarrying for only a day or less in such cities as Ottawa, Winnipeg and Vancouver, the Queen will see more of her people and country than most Canadians do in a lifetime. "I can't think of a single event where silk hats will be worn," says Lieut. General Howard Graham, Ottawa's top tour planner. "Perhaps a better word for the tour than 'informal' is 'comfortable...
...94th renewal of the U.S.'s oldest intercollegiate sporting event, Harvard's smooth-stroking varsity crew led from the start, fashioned a workmanlike 2½ length victory over Yale in a four-mile race on the Thames at New London, Conn...