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...world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, on Oct. 4, 1957. Above all, it proves that a satellite several hundred miles above the earth can pick up a signal as weak as that of the single-engine plane. Said one of the rescued men, George Heemskeerk of Brampton, Ont.: "We should have been cooperating like this years ago. This is something that can save people's lives." Heemskeerk and his companions went down while they themselves were looking for a plane that vanished July 19, only two weeks before the Soviet satellite began working. The pilot was Heemskeerk...
Jennifer Murray Mississauga, Ont...
...played were middle-aged prospective dealers who were thinking of setting up commercial game centers on their own land. Wayne Hockmeyer, 43, who runs a river-rafting business on the Kennebec, had come from Maine. Jerry Campbell, 36, a fur trapper, had driven in with a friend from Perth, Ont. Robert Curtiss, 39, who works in real estate for a subsidiary of AT&T, came from Cranford, N.J., despite a protest from his horrified boss...
DIED. Igor Gouzenko, 63, cipher expert in the Soviet Union's Ottawa embassy whose defection in 1945 defused a major North American Soviet spy ring bent on extracting Western atomic bomb secrets; of a heart attack; in Mississauga, Ont. The information that Gouzenko brought with him exposed for the first time the extent of the Soviet intelligence web in the U.S. and Canada. Hypersensitive to personal danger, Gouzenko thereafter never appeared in public without disguising himself or covering his head with...
Burlington, Ont...