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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...please keep it quiet. The strikebreakers were not beyond exercising a little lighthearted blackmail: one dental surgeon replaced a broken bridge for a politician on the condition that he would not use his newly recovered power of speech to lobby against the strike. In Ghent's Refuge Ste. Marie, a surgeon asked for police protection to complete a series of four operations. His striking colleagues protested that the surgery could wait-and threatened to stop him if he carried...
...Airlines Flight 831, a DC-8F jet with seven crew and 111 passengers aboard. At 6:30 p.m., the big red-and-silver jetliner lifted off Montreal's rainswept International Airport and banked left on course for Toronto 320 miles to the southwest. Four minutes later, townsfolk in Ste. Thérèse de Blainville heard a thunderous explosion as the plane slammed into a muddy field. The kerosene-fed fire raged for hours, despite the heavy downpour...
...borders. From Marienbad, now part of Czechoslovakia, to Baden, outside Vienna, where King Saud, his four wives and entourage are pumping $1 million a month into the local economy, hotel rooms in health resorts are booked solidly through summer and fall. In West Germany alone last year, Kurgäste, or cure-guests, cast $375 million on the health-giving waters, a 250% increase since 1955. "The great, the rich and the fat still come," says an official of the West German spa association. "But now that our social structure is more egalitarian, the Kur is for everyone...
Elected as Second Marshal was Wesley S. Williams, Jr. '63, of Quincy House and Washington, D.C. The Third and Fourth Marshals will be C. William Taylor '63, of 24 Oak St., Belmont, and Crookston, Minn., and David L. Johnston '63, of Dunster House and Sault Ste., Marie, Ontario...
...mature man, he found the same sense of alienation when he tried to return to the whites. In 1830 a U.S. Army doctor at Sault Ste. Marie recorded Tanner's narrative. To flesh out the account, Author O'Meara, a former advertising copywriter turned historical novelist, falls back on his formidable store of frontier lore and suggests that the American Indian was something less than nature's nobleman, e.g., some tribes had a habit of roasting captured children alive. But O'Meara cannot get away from the fact that he just does not know enough about...