Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philip has said, "to make this monarchy business work." Last week, as BOAC's U.S.-built DC; put down at Ottawa, Philip and Elizabeth stepped out to face still more newsreel and TV cameras with inquisitive eyes, still more thousands of eager and curious subjects. Standing at his wife's side, the Queen's husband was ready as ever for the job that is always with them-to bind together the people of not only a nation but an entire Commonwealth of Nations in an atmosphere of mutual trust, respect and affection...
Curtsies & Quips. The Queen of Canada arrived in Ottawa on a brisk, clear afternoon, flown from London in 13½ hours. Smiling, more poised than during her 1951 visit as a princess, she stepped down the ramp, followed by her bareheaded husband Philip (see FOREIGN NEWS). She accepted greetings from Governor General Vincent Massey and Prime Minister Diefenbaker, and a curtsy from Mrs. Diefenbaker. A Plexiglas-topped convertible whisked the royal couple to Rideau Hall, official residence of Governors General, where that night Elizabeth and Philip received 600 newsmen and their wives. To one of his visitors Philip gave...
...Jamestown. On Sunday, Elizabeth and Philip attended services at Ottawa's old Christ Church Cathedral; there Philip read the Parable of the Talents to an overflowing congregation. This week Elizabeth would open the Canadian Parliament (the first time a reigning monarch had performed this act), then fly to Jamestown, Va. for a ceremony marking the 350th anniversary of the founding of North America's first permanent English-speaking colony. Afterward, with Prime Minister Diefenbaker acting as the Queen's senior adviser, she and Philip would visit President Eisenhower in Washington. Before returning home to London, they also...
...system in 1853 to adopt a decimal-based monetary system, the government pegged its dollar on a par with the U.S. dollar. Later, Canadian money was freed to find its own level. In 1940 the dollar dropped to a low of 78 U.S. cents; as World War II progressed, Ottawa pegged its dollar at 90?. After Canada dropped all monetary controls again in 1950, the Canadian dollar began its slow rise to last week's high...
...Line? Abel did not work alone. Also in the plot, as the grand jury indictment told the story, were his deputy, Lieut. Colonel Reino Hayhanen (cover name: "Vic"), and three others-Vitali G. Pavlov, onetime Soviet embassy official in Ottawa; ex-United Nations employee Mikhail Svirin; Aleksandr Mikhailovich Korotkov. For nine years Colonel Abel and his fellow spies played a deadly serious melodrama. They met at prearranged rendezvous, e.g., Manhattan's Tavern-on-the Green and a Newark railroad station, and exchanged or left messages and microfilmed documents, tapped in on telephone lines to make untraceable calls. They banked...