Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vigorous, bustling 100. In observance of the occasion, TIME sent Calgary Bureau Chief Ed Ogle and Toronto Photographer George Hunter ranging across the province by airplane, helicopter, train, bus, car, steamship, fishing boat and afoot to get a color picture spread and a colorful story. For their special report, including six pages in color, see THE HEMISPHERE, CANADA: British Columbia at 100. Appropriately, this week marks an anniversary for TIME: the 15th year of our Canadian edition, which goes to 200,000 Canadian families. Observing this birthday, we have prepared a booklet, In Our Time, containing excerpts from significant Canadian...
...quite as stable as other people is when I am in a group of people, and somebody says: 'Where's Chuck?' And it suddenly occurs to me that Chuck is out campaigning, and he isn't like ordinary people at all: he is doing something special...
...this month will set another record. Last August the U.S. aircraft carrier Essex, with a deck half again wider than that of any ship transiting the canal before, showed up at Port Said on an emergency dash to reinforce the Seventh Fleet off Formosa. The Egyptians eagerly built a special platform on the deck, and from this vantage their senior pilot, a Greek with 30 years' experience, conned the flattop through, nonstop. "I'm trying to give my customers the best,'' says the authority's able, open-shirted Managing Director Mahmoud Younis, 46, a fellow...
...innocence" and led Parliament in a solemn expression of contrition. The government paid indemnity to the victims' families ($2,500 to $3,500), brought the killers to court. Last week, after a trial that lasted through 102 sittings and took 5,000 pages of evidence, a special military court sentenced Major Malinki, Lieut. Dehan and six subordinates to prison terms ranging from seven to 17 years...
...chamber beneath the orchestra pit. During its early years, the Met removed the seats, held charity balls and a flower show on the orchestra floor. When Impresario Henry Abbey lost $600,000 in the house's first season, he recouped some of his losses by tossing in a special variety show at which Soprano Marcella Sembrich played a violin concerto, moved to the piano to rip off a Chopin mazurka, and sang Ah! non giunge from Bellini's Sonnambula...