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...maneuver was one more small piece in the growing pattern of joint defense. Both Washington and Ottawa want a pool of officers and men who know how both services work. Recently Canada's Naval Air Group 18 finished an intensive three-month course at Quonset Point, R.I. With U.S. pilots, they concentrated on detecting and bombing schnorkel submarines. This month, the Canadian destroyer Halda spent two weeks training in Chesapeake Bay, then sailed with a U.S. Navy amphibious force for a practice assault on the coast of Labrador...
Three weeks ago such team work got a priority policy rating from the North Atlantic Treaty Defense Committee. If North American forces were to work as an operational unit, both Washington and Ottawa wanted many more get-togethers like Operation Metropolis...
...first human patients treated with the electrophrenic respirator was nine-year-old Bruce Plater, of Ottawa, Ont., who developed bulbar polio while on vacation in New England. In July, at Children's Hospital in Boston, Bruce's breathing was electrically controlled for six days before the disease receded. Six machines are now ready for use. By New Year's they will be generally available, at about $275 each...
Despite the relative freedom of border crossings,* and even allowing a tolerance for the imponderables of red tape, most Canadians felt such incidents occurred all too frequently. Said the Ottawa Citizen: "United States immigration authorities have been applying a 'thought control' policy that in recent months has caused many Canadians inconvenience and humiliation...
Simple Desires. To King, the reward was welcome but not surprising. His sugary three-quarter-time, he admits, has already made him "a little better than a millionaire." It has paid for a luxurious grey Georgian house in Chicago's suburban Kenilworth, a 680-acre Ottawa, Ill. feeder farm where cattle are fattened for market, and a 640-acre hunting reservation in Wisconsin. Last week, puffing thoughtfully on one of his 300 pipes (briars, clays and cobs), King explained why his style is so successful: "There are many people whose musical desires are very simple. We try to play...