Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canada's Liberal Party, out of power since its upset defeat by the Conservatives last June, met in Ottawa lastweek to pick a new leader. The delegates' choice: Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, 60, former Secretary of State for External Affairs and winner of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in creating the United Nations Emergency Force for the Middle East...
Back home in Ottawa, Ill., ex-Army Private William Girard, 22, out of jeopardy after a Japanese court gave him a three-year sentence (suspended) for killing a woman scavenging on a firing range in Japan, out of uniform after an undesirable discharge, quested for a job and anonymity. But Girard's Japanese wife Candy was getting a warmer reception from the locals than Bill. While he was unsuccessfully seeking work, she was neatly fitting herself into his family, even helped fix the Christmas turkey. Girard was moaning meek and low: "All I want...
...OTTAWA JOURNAL...
...eagle screams had sounded across the U.S. when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Girard, accused of shooting a Japanese woman in the back on a firing range, would have to stand trial for manslaughter in a Japanese court; from Capitol Hill to Girard's home town of Ottawa, Ill., flag-waving orators, commentators and editorialists deplored handing over an American to non-American (and presumably barbaric) justice...
...exhibit Britain's painting of the 18th century, the British Council has assembled 86 paintings, including four owned by Queen Elizabeth II, 16 by Canadian and U.S. owners (see color pages).* Opening last month at Ottawa's National Gallery, the show will move on to Toronto and Toledo, Ohio before the paintings are sent back to their owners. One indication that the four years spent in planning and collecting the show would pay off handsomely: despite the fact that Ottawa was charging admission for the first time, attendance in the first two weeks ran more than double...