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...Duluth this week, leaders of Minnesota's Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party will request Adlai Stevenson to accept their endorsement for President. Within a few days, Stevenson will answer yes. Although he has previously made it obvious that he will run, e.g., in Kingston, Ont. last fortnight, when he told newsmen he would accept the Democratic nomination if it were offered, Stevenson will consider his reply to Minnesota his formal announcement of candidacy. Thus, the 1952 Democratic nominee will become the first official entry in the 1956 presidential field...
Night Flight. In Walkerton, Ont., fined $40 and costs for careless driving, Andrew Frieburger, 72, told the magistrate that he ordinarily drove his car by celestial navigation, but lost his bearings and wound up in a ditch when he mistook a TV tower light for the evening star...
Take. In Stevensville, Ont., police searched for the safecrackers who got away with 5? after they blasted a Canadian National Railway safe with such force that they blew the estimated $36 it contained all over the station floor, caused $2,000 damage to the office...
...hysteria" in the U.S., were plainly rattled. Assistant Deputy Minister of Agriculture Stanislas Joseph Chagnon publicly apologized for the demonstrators' behavior. "I told the delegates I am sorry," he said. "I am embarrassed." To avoid any further embarrassment, it was announced that plans to visit Toronto and Windsor, Ont., where there are large immigrant populations, had been canceled, and that the Russians' revised itinerary would be kept secret from...
Burst of Prosperity. The uranium rush burst two years ago upon the declining old lumber town of Blind River, Ont. (pop. 2,500) with the news that Toronto Promoter Joseph Hirshhorn (TIME, Feb. 21) had quietly staked 1,400 claims covering 56,000 acres of choice mining prospects. On the map, Hirshhorn's claims formed a giant Z with its horizontal bars 30 miles apart. Within weeks, other prospectors poured in feverishly to stake another 8,000 claims. Land prices soared; Blind River's four "beverage rooms" added new tables, took on hefty waiters able to cope with...