Word: nfld
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...miles from Cape Spear, Nfld., to Mount St. Elias in the Yukon, and the people who inhabit Canada's sweeping domain are as varied as the landscape. First to come in large numbers were the French, in the footsteps of Explorer Samuel de Champlain; they still make up nearly one-third of the population and live chiefly in Quebec. British merchants, traders and settlers followed after Quebec was captured by the British in 1759, their numbers enhanced after 1776 by immigrant American colonials who preferred British rule to U.S. independence. Today 40% of all Canadians are Anglo-Saxons...
Canada. Six Air Force bases- two SAC, four ADC. Also, a Navy station at Argentia, Nfld...
...than 49 new flight records. (She already holds the ladies' speed mark: 842.6 m.p.h. in an Air Force T-38 jet.) Major new record claimed: longest straight-line distance in a jet piloted by a woman-2,279 miles from New Orleans to a refueling stop in Gander, Nfld...
...this is becoming the repeated refrain of my children and friends," noted Reluctant Dowager Eleanor Roosevelt. She was obviously not listening as she sailed into her 78th year ( she has decided to celebrate only every fifth birthday ) with a convocation appearance at Memorial University in St John's. Nfld. and a call on the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s palaver in Manhattan. "How can I slow down." she wondered, "when the world is so challenging? I think I must have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore Roosevelt in m, because I enjoy a good fight, and I could...