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...reporters were again busy "working the Hill." The regular TIME reporters covering the Hill this year are James L. McConaughy Jr. and John L. Steele. In the 15 years he has been with TIME, McConaughy has been a writer. Chicago correspondent, deskman in the news bureau, bureau chief in Ottawa (where he spent 3½ years "watching the other form of democratic government work-the parliamentary system of Canada") and TIME'S bureau chief in Seattle. He has covered Congress for TIME since 1951. "I still remember my first day on the Hill," he says. "I got blisters just...
...world's longest gas pipeline is going to be built across Canada. This was announced last week by Trade & Commerce Minister C. D. Howe after a four-day conference in Ottawa with officials of two pipeline companies. Canadian-owned Western Pipe Lines Ltd., which had sought permission to transport Alberta's natural gas to Winnipeg and Minneapolis, and U.S.-controlled Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd., which wanted to build an all Canadian line, had agreed to merge. The new combine will build a 2,240-mile pipeline from Princess, Alta. to Toronto and Montreal. The pipeline will...
...Ottawa, Ont. PAUL HARRIS ... I nominate the Notre Dame football team as the No. 1 Stinker of the Year...
Secret Rendezvous. Mike Pearson, who was en route to a U.N. session in New York, hurried back to Ottawa as soon as the second U.S. note was received late last week, and called a press conference to repeat that Gouzenko had "nothing more to offer." That same day Gouzenko issued a 350-word sworn statement. Said Gouzenko: "Mr. Pearson was ill-advised . . . I can give advice which . . . would have good chances of bringing exposure of present Soviet spy rings...
...follow either course: the Canadian government, which supplies a full-time police guard for the Gouzenkos and their two children, has strongly hinted that the guard will be withdrawn if Gouzenko chooses to abandon his own security arrangements. Gouzenko, who was chased by NKVD agents in Ottawa after his break for freedom in 1945, still fears that the Reds would kill him to set an example for other doubters and "to prove that they have a long...