Word: short
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says Canada's Citizenship and Immigration Minister Ellen Fairclough, and this week her department is backing its sentiments with action. Two Canadian information offices are opening in Los Angeles and Minneapolis to supplement existing offices in New York and Chicago. Their purpose: to offer all help "short of money" to desirable U.S. citizens interested in moving to Canada on a permanent basis...
...angry because the FBI had once forced the dismissal of Nancy Wechsler, wife of Post Editor James Wechsler, from a Washington job. Indignantly, and at exhaustive length that spared neither the reader nor Nancy, Publisher Schiff reported that Mrs. Wechsler had belonged to the Young Communist League for a short time years ago but had never been fired from a Government...
...Fitzgerald, grimly determined after a 13th-place showing a week ago, led the Crimson by taking a close second behind Quaker Ernest Tracy. Fitzgerald's great closing rush made it seem that he might overhaul the Penn ace, but his bid fell three seconds short. Tracy's winning time was 26:10 for the five-mile distance...
Benham, the Lions' 5 ft., 8 in. quarterback, tried a short pass, which was almost intercepted by Harvard captain Ted Metropoulos but merely fell incomplete. Thus reprieved, Benham went to the air again, heaving a pass from his own 31 to the Harvard 33. Since everyone in New York's Baker Field was expecting a pass, Crimson safety man Matt Botsford was in position to deflect the ball. Deflect it he did--right into the hands of Spraker on the 25--and the Lion halfback covered the last 25 yards without a hand laid...
Army spokesmen termed the test a success, although the missile fell short of its goal because of an apparent failure during the coasting phase of the missile's flight...