Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Riding Piggyback. Relations between the two unions have long been uneasy and lately have further deteriorated. Jurisdictional disputes have flared as both unions have vied to organize proofreaders, stencil clerks and driver-mailers. The Guild refused to honor I.T.U. picket lines at three Toronto dailies last year and helped break the strike. In retaliation, the I.T.U. crossed the Guild's picket lines at two Hearst newspapers in Albany and helped break that strike; last May, after the Guild struck the Baltimore Sun, I.T.U. President Elmer Brown ordered his printers back to work...
...Shame." Two months ago Snell ran a half-mile in Honolulu, then a mile in Los Angeles. He won both races, but his time for the half-mile (1 min. 53.8 sec.) was only soso. He ran an 880-yd. race against Canada's Bill Crothers in Toronto. On the last turn, Snell pulled his usual ploy, turned on a great burst of speed for the final sprint, but Crothers hung on, passed him 40 yds. from the tape. "My legs felt dead," complained Snell...
According to Lamont, on the night before the Texas Gulf board meeting, a Canadian weekly, The Northern Miner, front-paged the story of the ore strike-under a headline TEXAS GULF COMES UP WITH A "MAJOR." Copies of the paper had arrived in Manhattan and Toronto brokerage houses well before his phone call'. At 9:40 a.m. on the day of the meeting, Ontario Mines Minister G: C. Wardrope summoned Toronto reporters and confirmed the find. By 10:20, reporters at a Texas Gulf press conference in New York were phoning in their stories of the find...
...baritone and baby-blue, bedroom gaze have since made him one of the nation's most pawed-after TV and nightclub performers. Son of a Lawrence, Mass., bartender, he moved to his grandparents' farm in Edmonton, Canada, when he was 14, later won a scholarship in Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music. Forsaking a career in opera, he gained fame and $30,000 a year as the Pat Boone of Canadian TV. He now makes that much in a week on the cabaret circuit...
NOBODY WAVED GOODBYE. Two troubled teen-agers (Peter Kastner and Julie Biggs) suffer growing pains in Toronto, and Canadian Writer-Director Don Owen studies their plight with such assurance that the problem play becomes a poem...