Word: newfoundland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pearson, it was a week of exhilara tion and new beginnings. A baby was named for him in Newfoundland-and so were two penguin chicks hatched in Vancouver's zoo. Technically, he was still four seats shy of an absolute parliamentary majority. But the two splinter parties, with 41 seats between them, had both promised support on most issues. A frantic argument shook the funny-money Social Credit Party over six Quebec M.P.s who bolted party lines, independently promised their votes to Pearson. "I will not tolerate any deals," said Social Credit Leader Robert Thompson, hinting darkly that...
Early returns from the Maritime Provinces indicated new successes for the Liberals. In Newfoundland, the Liberals took two Progressive Conservative seats, to make a clean sweep of the island's seven ridings. (congressional districts, constituencies) In tiny Prince Edward Island, the Liberals gained two P.C. seats to split the province's four seats with the P.C. party...
...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 and Quebec, there...
...Republican, and so he proposed a standby "Council of Free Nations" that would step in, with military force if necessary, "when the U.N. is prevented from taking action, or if it fails to act to preserve peace." When the pilot touched the single-engined Beechcraft Bonanza down at Newfoundland's Gander airport and began discussing a flight plan, the officials were horrified. They surely would not permit Marion Hart, 70, to fly the Atlantic to Ireland. They wouldn't even let her have gas or weather reports. So she simply picked up what news she could about...
...Ames Awards honor the memory of Richard Glover Ames '34 and Henry R. Ames '33, who gave their lives attempting to save their father from the seas of Newfoundland during a transatlantic sailing race in 1936. They are given for outstanding qualities of leadership, self-reliance, and character...