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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British Commonwealth Relations Office to a full-fledged Canadian province. To thousands of transatlantic air travelers who have seen the fueling base at Gander airport, the province appears to be little more than a barren rock jutting out into the North Atlantic sea and air lanes. It is a land of clammy summer fogs and lashing North Atlantic storms; its climate and soil are so forbidding that the islanders must import a full 90% of their food. St. John's was the last spot of North American soil that Charles Lindbergh glimpsed as he headed eastward in his epic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Anniversary Crisis | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

National characteristics not only show up in food, fashion and love, but also in sport-particularly in ice hockey. Canada's own game is like the land itself: rugged and bruising, a body-contact sport something like a combination of lacrosse (another Canadian game) and football. European hockey is so different as to be barely recognizable at times. While Canadians are trained to deliver solid body and board checks, the Europeans tend to play hockey like soccer, as a game of finesse with greater emphasis on pinpoint passing and Fancy Dan pattern plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tough & Triumphant | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...Pope can be counted on to bless anything, from a new U.S. helicopter (the first aircraft ever to land in the Vatican) to a crowd of bicycle racers departing for Sardinia. In his Latin blessing of the "helicopterum," he asked God to "grant that in the same way it rises into ethereal spaces, our minds be elevated toward celestial things and be united by ties of charity." And he advised the cyclists: "When you get to Cagliari, tell the Madonna of Bonaria that the Pope sent you, and she will bless Italy, you and your families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Old Man | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...bustling town of Poissy, 17 miles northwest of Paris, needed a high school and thought it had the perfect site. The town council expropriated 18 acres of farm land containing several orchards, a few small market-garden plots, and smack in the middle, a decrepit, uninhabited villa owned by the widow and son of a Paris insurance man named Pierre Savoye. Poissy's mayor proposed to indemnify the family and then tear the villa down. Last week M. le Maire wished he could forget the whole thing. The idea brought a hornet's nest of protests down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stompin' on the Savoye | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...moved another stride toward the day when man will blast into space, and return, gliding through the atmosphere perhaps on red-hot wings to land at a chosen spaceport. At California's Edwards Air Force Base last week, a ponderous B-52 jet bomber lumbered down the runway, its engines spouting black smoke. From the rear it did not look right; it was lopsided, with a goodish-sized object hung unsymmetrically under its right wing. As the bomber broke ground, it listed slightly from the dragging weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: First Lift-Off | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

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