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...Seaway dedication were being handled by the Canadian, British and U.S. governments, Canadians indignantly asked what the devil the British government had to do with it. Elizabeth is visiting their shores as Queen of Canada, and nothing else. For most of them the event is joyful and important. Sudbury, Ont. has been torn for weeks over whether or not the Queen's route should take her past the old people's home. A note of outrage was sounded in the Montreal Gazette when an indignant royalist reader protested against Canada's No. 1 hit song, The Battle...
There are also some dissenters. A Windsor, Ont. construction worker grumbled, "If I went to Europe, she wouldn't pay attention to me, so I'm not going out of my way to see her." Canada's prettiest TV star, blonde Joyce Davidson, appearing on television in New York last week, said that "like most Canadians, I'm indifferent to the visit of the Queen." Furious phone calls jammed the switchboards of Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Joyce's employer. Returning home, Joyce announced that she was taking an indefinite leave of absence from her job because...
...least attractive creatures: a sharp-beaked "kissing bug" (Rhodinus prolixits], a tiny (½ in. long) brown resident of South America that lives on blood and sometimes sucks at human lips. Dr. Baldwin, a radiation specialist at Atomic Energy of Canada's remote biology laboratory in Chalk River, Ont., went to work on the bug because it signals visually when its cells are dividing: they divide only when Rhodinus needs to grow a new coat. This process occurs after the bug is newly gorged with blood, and then all the cells under its body wall divide simultaneously. Furthermore...
Sticky Fin. In Kenora, Ont., Ice Fisherman Oscar Boivin had no luck with minnows, stuck a marshmallow on his hook and pulled in a 14-lb. lake trout...
...Done. The two Canadians-George G. Dingman Jr., 34, whose father publishes the reputable Times-Journal (circ. 10,720) of St. Thomas, Ont., and a sometime salesman named Joseph Dyson-worked out of London, Ont. To milk the contests, they set up a nonexistent newspaper, rented a post-office box for a nonexistent bank. Then they solicited two of the several U.S. syndicates that peddle prize contests to newspapers and that insist on sending solutions, as a precaution, to banks (or some other unimpeachable agency). In due time the phony newspaper began receiving the puzzles-and the phony bank began...