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...shadow of Ottawa's National War Memorial one morning last week, three little Canadian boys gravely examined the card on a wreath just placed there by a visitor from the U.S. "What's it say?" asked one. An older passer-by read it for them. "It says," said this man, "'the President of the United States.'" Then he added quietly: "Bless his heart...
...representing Red China charged that the Ford Motor Co. of Canada, Ltd. had refused to consider an order for 1,000 cars because of the operation of the U.S. Trading with the Enemy Act. Last week's common-sense solution: to review any future cases in Washington and Ottawa, generally free Canadian companies to operate under Canadian rules...
After the war, McConaughy worked as TIME's bureau chief in Ottawa and Seattle, but it was on Washington's Capitol Hill that he found his real home. Often mistaken by tourists for a Senator, McConaughy liked the members of Congress, and they liked him. He averaged about five miles a day walking down congressional corridors into congressional offices, was a welcome guest in congressional homes, an after-hours regular in the private sanctums of Vice President Richard Nixon, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. He played a leading part in covering...
...Canadian and U.S. committees assigned to recommend a toll policy for the St. Lawrence Seaway last week plumped for low tolls aimed at attracting a high volume of traffic to the new deepwater channels when they open next year. Hearings on the toll rates will open in Ottawa and Washington in August; if both the U.S. and Canadian governments approve the rates as recommended, it will usually cost shipowners less in tolls to move their vessels the 369 miles from Montreal to Lake Erie than to go through the Panama or Suez Canals...
Crooks Brothers. In Ottawa, guards from the Manitoba Penitentiary complained to a civil service association convention that they had to wear uniforms made by the prisoners, whose intent was "to make the officers look as ridiculous as possible...