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...happened, Teddy Kennedy was sitting in the presiding officer's chair of the Senate, and Bobby was lunching at his Hickory Hill home. At the news of his brother's death, the Attorney General stalked outside without a word and, accompanied only by his jet-black, 150-lb. Newfoundland, Brumus, walked head down, hands in pockets, for an hour...
Antitank Guns. Moving onto Georges Bank off Cape Cod and the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, proliferating Russian trawlers snag American nets, ram smaller boats in the fog and often force fishermen right off the banks; in Alaska, fishermen recently became so furious about Russian trawlers pulling their crab pots that they began ordering antitank guns to mount on their decks, were dissuaded only by a flying visit from Alaska Governor William...
...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...