Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next few weeks, most of these Texas Gulf insiders began buying up the company's stock in hopes that the lode was as good as the core looked. By early April 1964, rumors of the strike had flitted from Timmins to Toronto to Wall Street. When the New York Times printed a story of reports of a "great deposit" found at Timmins by Texas Gulf, the company promptly slapped the report down as "without factual basis." In a press release on April 12, the company discounted the Timmins core: "Any statement as to the size and grade...
More than a third of Canada's university students attend Ontario colleges, which are largely fed by the province's 13-grade public-school system. The University of Toronto is spinning off satellite colleges, including Scarborough, which will open in Toronto next fall with 500 students, and Erindale, which will start in 1966. An earlier Toronto satellite, York University, is moving onto a brand-new campus on the west side of Toronto, leaving its old building to just-founded Glendon College, which is modeled on Swarthmore. Some 16 buildings are under construction or planned at Ontario...
...traditional schools-Leacock's own McGill University in Montreal, Nova Scotia's Dalhousie University, the top-rank University of Toronto, and four big western provincial universities -are pouring out more graduates than ever. But the typical Canadian student nowadays is just as likely to be found at an "instant university," sitting in a ground-floor classroom while builders finish the upper stories. For the country has a clear goal: it wants to move from higher-educating a relatively elite 15% of its college-age population to a 1975 level of 271% (currently the U.S. proportion...
Teresa made her debut in her father's restaurant at four, singing Pistol-Packin' Mama. At 15, she was singing in Toronto dives. "If you learn to hold an audience of drunks who would rather be noisy, you can surely hold people at the Met who pay to hear you," she says. She saw her first opera at 16, when Renata Tebaldi sang La Bohème's Mimi in Toronto. At 20, she outsang 2,000 contestants to win the annual audition and a contract at the Metropolitan Opera...
Some chemicals once used in dye-making have been clearly shown to cause bladder cancer in both industrial workers and laboratory animals, and last week Dr. William K. Kerr of Toronto's famed Banting Institute reported that he had found similar cancer-causing chemicals in the urine of heavy smokers. The villain in the piece, reported Dr. Kerr and his colleagues at the University of Toronto, is a group called the ortho-aminophenols...