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...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...
...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...