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Mighty Hunter. On the plains of Manitoba, the sickly youth grew to be a young giant. His normal walking pace was a killing five miles an hour. Then, on the high plains of New Mexico, he became a celebrated wolf hunter-in the tradition of one of his ancestors, Evan Cameron, whom he called "The mighty wolf hunter of the North." His first popular books (Wild Animals I Have Known and The Biography of a Grizzly) sold hundreds of thousands of copies among captivated readers on both sides of the Atlantic...
Specifically U.S. and Canadian troops, with uniform equipment, would be stationed at big bases like Churchill, Manitoba (tentatively, Canada would have 500 men there, the U.S. 100), at forlorn little landing strips like "Crystal 1," at Fort Chimo in northeastern Quebec, and "Crystal 2," on Baffin Island's Frobisher Bay. Soldiers of both nations would also staff a ring of weather stations and radar listening posts all across the continent's bleak Arctic vastness and down the east and west coasts to the U.S. The suggestions sounded simple. But the arguments pro & con were complex...
...Liberal defeat in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, a Liberal seat since 1935, was harder to swallow. The party sent out its biggest wigs to woo the voters. They only succeeded in making it close. Winner: Calvert Charlton Miller, a 47-year-old lawyer...
...defeat cut Prime Minister King's already slim margin in the House of Commons to 123 seats (out of 243), and set political pundits staring into their crystal balls. There are two more federal by-elections coming up - in late October - in Toronto-Parkdale, and Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. The Liberals already concede Toronto-Parkdale to the Tories ; it has never elected a Liberal. But Portage la Prairie, like Pontiac, is vacant because of a Liberal's death. If the Liberals lose that one too (their chances are only fair), the Liberals would barely control the House. There...
Defense Minister Douglas Abbott announced that Churchill, Manitoba had been chosen as an experimental station to test and develop military equipment. The Canadian press said that the recommendation had been made by the Joint U.S.Canada Permanent Defense Board, that eventually 5,000 Canadians and 5,000 U.S. troops may be stationed at Churchill. Washington denied that U.S. troops would be sent there, said only military observers would go to Churchill...