Word: mike
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Because of Canada's traditionally mild manners in world affairs, foreign-policy debates in Parliament have often seemed stale and tepid. Last week's scheduled debate gave no special promise of being any exception. Less than 48 hours before he was to lead off the discussion, Lester ("Mike") Pearson, Secretary of State for External Affairs, was still in New York, at the United Nations meeting. On his way back to Ottawa he stopped off for the opening of Toronto's Royal Winter Fair. He came into Ottawa on a morning train, having written part of his speech...
...Crimson soccer players were selected to the All-New England League team picked by league coaches yesterday. Halfback Horrick Drake and forward Charley Weiss made the first squad. Fullback Mike Scully and forward Jon Spivak were named to the alternate team...
...celebrate another Democratic victory in "the making. Between the diamondback terrapin soup and the baked seafood canape, White House Press Secretary Charlie Ross approached the dais with a sheaf of figures in hand. Harry Truman rose, grinning, and without waiting for the formality of an introduction, said into the mike: "I have some early election returns. Lehman and O'Dwyer seem to be winning. It looks pretty good." After the Boston ice cream pie had been cleared away, the President rose again to announce "the latest returns on the Lehman-Dulles fiasco - and it will be just that when...
...Wolf and Ben Goldstein, left and right outsides on the forward line, provided the scoring. Rick Drake at center half, goalie Whoop Batchelder, and fullbacks Bill Harrop and Mike Scully bore the weight of an Eli attack that was vicious though sporadic...
Others closed in. Did Bridges want to belong to "a democratic organization such as C.I.O.?" shouted the maritime union's Joe Curran. "Then, by God, carry out its national policies and programs." Roared Mike Quill at Bridges and the other left-wing leaders: "Pinks, punks and parasites...