Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coal & Scenery. The Rocky Mountains, along the southwest border, are another of the province's great assets. Three-quarters of Canada's coal, one-seventh of the world's known coal reserve, lie in the Rockies' foothills. The wooded slopes bear 15,000 square miles of tall Douglas firs, one of the finest timbers. The mountains yield yet another resource: scenic beauty that brings a million visitors a year to such playgrounds as Banff, Jasper...
...Australia's Frank Sedgman, new U.S. National men's singles champion, and Maureen Connolly, new National women's singles queen (TIME, Sept. 17), the Pacific Southwest tennis championships; in Los Angeles. Playing on the Los Angeles Tennis Club's cement courts, Sedgman swept to his victory in the final over Cincinnati's Tony Trabert, 6-3, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, while Maureen, a day short of her 17th birthday, defeated Santa Monica's Beverly Baker, 9-7, 6-4. ¶Professional Golfer Betsy Rawls, 23, of Austin, Texas, the Women...
Britons were flocking last week, as eager as race fans, to the R.A.F. experimental station at Farnborough, 33 miles southwest of London. The twelfth annual show of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors, billed as "the most spectacular aviation display ever held in Britain," turned out to be just that. Britain's aircraft constructors, slipping aside the wraps of military security, really had something to display...
...soon as the investiture ceremony was over, Secretary Chevallier jumped into an official car and a chauffeur drove him home to Orleans, 70 miles southwest of Paris, where he is mayor...
Last week in the little town of Sadec, 60 miles southwest of Saigon, French and Vietnamese soldiers were drawn up for an official inspection by General Chanson and Governor Thai Lap Thanh. In the crowded town square, white-kepied Foreign Legionnaires and red-capped Spahis paraded to military music, while peasants, townsfolk and children waved Vietnamese paper flags. As Chanson and Thanh got out of their Nash in front of the governor's residence, the soldiers presented arms, trumpeters sounded the general's call. General Chanson stood at attention and saluted...