Word: newfoundland
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...hours. One recent morning report indicated that NORAD had spotted seven Soviet aircraft tracks over Siberia, 17 unidentified planes above North America (each was checked as friendly within five minutes), 121 satellites and pieces of satellite debris in orbit around the earth, and 20 Russian trawlers cruising off Newfoundland's Grand Banks and the Aleutians...
...Outparts. Last week Diefenbaker flew to Newfoundland, stumping through remote outparts where no Prime Minister had ever visited before. Lester Pearson blew into the small Ontario pulp and paper town of Espanola, Ont. (pop. 5,000) to be nominated once again as Espanola's Member of Parliament. Said he earlier in the week: "Under Liberal governments in the postwar years, our economic record was the envy of the world. Now, our friends in other countries ask, 'What has happened to Canada?' It is Tory government that has happened-a wrong the people will soon make right...
...covered the 3,600-mile distance in 33 hr. 29 min. 30 sec. But Lindbergh's single-engined (223 h.p.) ship went all the way on one filling of gas. Between New York and Paris, the Hustler (jet thrust: 62,400 lbs.) was refueled twice-once near Newfoundland and again off the French coast...
...years ago, Florida's cattle egret population was 5,000; today it exceeds 15,000, and the sociable birds have been spotted in every state along the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. One wanderer, apparently lost, flew aboard a ship 200 miles off the coast of Newfoundland; another was shot by a farmer near Portland, Me. who complained it was upsetting his chickens. In the mud-and-mangroves Everglades National Park, where there are no cattle, the wily egrets trail tourists' cars, trapping insects stirred up by the moving tires...
...Canadian Parliament's least happy duty is to act as a divorce court for the provinces of Quebec and Newfoundland. It is an arrangement originally made as a concession to populous Roman Catholic Quebec, which frowns on divorce and declines to establish a court of its own. The sole ground for a parliamentary divorce is adultery. Over the years, as the number of petitions grew (to more than 600 this year), Ottawa tacitly winked at its suspicion that Montreal detective agencies were doing a lucrative trade arranging the evidence. But last week an aggrieved husband named William Eccles blew...