Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When Toronto's Geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson recently crossed the border, he found that it took five hours. After the Russians had switched the train wheels at Otpor to fit China's narrower-gauge tracks, he reported: "The train crept forward in the dark toward the actual border. It was brilliantly floodlit. Soldiers with rifles and fixed bayonets were on guard...
...Lake Ontario from Oshawa to Niagara Falls. One out of every seven Canadians now lives there. They produce-in 6,700 factories ranging from Ford's assembly line at Oakville (Canada's largest factory, with a capacity of 140,000 cars a year) to tailoring shops in Toronto-more than $6.7 billion worth of goods a year, 29% of the nation's manufacturing output. They mail one of every four letters in Canada, pay one-third of all federal income taxes. They proudly call the area "the Golden Horseshoe...
...horseshoe seems to glow more golden every year. As its population has increased at the rate of nearly 5% yearly (from 1,700,000 in 1950 to 2,500,000 now), a colorful spectrum of new industry has set up shop: last year alone 32 factories moved into metropolitan Toronto. Says William Nickle, Ontario's Minister of Planning and Development: "It's an ongoing process-as there is more population there is more industry, and as there is more industry there is more population...
...rights, and the awkward fact that some college players have agreeably signed contracts with teams in both leagues. ¶ Baseball's Continental League has mixed blessings from the two major leagues, a full roster of cities (Atlanta, Buffalo, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Houston, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York, Toronto), and heady plans to play ball in the 1961 season. Problems: getting new players under contract (no team has any. as yet); working out territorial or minor-league draft arrangements with the existing major leagues; leasing, enlarging or building new stadiums after the first wobbly years. Prospects: still iffy...
...Beat. In Toronto, Ont., University of Toronto Student Ries Karvanque, capitalizing on the beatnik boom, charges $5 for appearing at parties in beatnik garb and letting the guests discuss her, $10 for playing the bongo drums, $15 for reciting beat poetry...