Word: labradors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Orphans' Reprieve. Now enters Pennsylvania's Republican Governor William Scranton, owner of a Labrador retriever. (As a child, his wife had had a pair of Irish setters, but they were shot by a farmer.) Scranton spotted the story in a Pittsburgh paper, interrupted a series of legislative planning meetings to phone an aide and ask, "Can't we do something about this?" Indeed they could. Within hours after the Governor's query, a special assistant attorney general went into Allegheny County Orphans Court, which handles the probate and interpretation of wills, and served notice that...
...ordered Canadian units "into the same level of readiness as the U.S. forces under NORAD control." But when the Pentagon requested permission for U.S. air defense squadrons to move into forward bases in Canada, permission was refused. Again, when the U.S. asked to arm interceptors at Goose Bay, Labrador, and Stephenville, Newfoundland, with nuclear warheads ferried from Bangor, Me., permission was refused. Officially, Canadian and U.S. airmen at NORAD headquarters in Colorado Springs had nothing to say. "This is politics," said one officer. Privately, they ground their teeth in frustration. The incident did illustrate an interesting point. Across Ontario...
...groups of friends in restaurants. Between times, when the mood seizes them, they take off for Paris, London or, as they did last winter, Egypt. There a bedazzled pasha presented Ceezee with a greyhound, which she gratefully accepted as a welcome addition to her traveling retinue of dogs (two Labrador retrievers, a miniature schnauzer, a toy poodle...
...Force radar operator at Goose Bay, Labrador, last week was watching bright blips drifting across his radarscope as he traced the track of airplanes approaching from Europe. The planes seemed to be scattered all over the sky, sometimes as far as 150 miles off course. Only when the planes came within reach of land radio guidance did the blips slant crabwise back to their proper courses...
...Farther west, another traffic increase is expected upon completion of the "Connecting Channels" project, which will open a 27-ft. waterway through the Soo Locks and the Detroit, St. Clair and St. Marys rivers. The Seaway should benefit ultimately, too, from major new iron mines being developed in Labrador and from steadily mounting U.S. and Canadian exports. Says Chicago Regional Port Director Maxim Cohen: "We're just a waddling infant. It will probably be 1965 before we can take off our diapers and put on pants...