Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World section, went along on the photographic trip, out of her own fascination with the subject. On a first journey to the Middle East nine years ago, Miss Chase first got interested, and since then she has spent four summers on archaeological expeditions run by the Universities of Toronto and Colorado and the Museum of New Mexico. Her recent trip to Turkey seemed luxurious to her after some earlier trips: "I didn't have to poach eggs for 20 people or sleep in a tent." What is the appeal of archaeology to an amateur? Finding skeletons and pots...
...wide. It was all that remained of Trans-Canada 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...
Almost by reflex, people rushed to disclaim even remote complicity in the murder. "Thank God it wasn't a Negro," said a Negro in Toronto. Many others insisted on reading into the event their own political passions. Statesmen in Africa, Asia and elsewhere insisted that the deed must have been done by a racist, and that Kennedy was a martyr like Lincoln or Gandhi. And Nehru could not resist remarking that the murder gave evidence of "dark corners in the U.S., and this great tragedy is a slap for the concept of democracy...
Died. Donald Dean Summerville, 48, mayor of Toronto, a onetime R.C.A.F. pilot who won an upset victory last December over a longtime incumbent, in less than a year made a strong start at cutting civic waste and featherbedding; of a heart attack suffered while tending goal in an exhibition hockey match to raise funds for victims of the recent Italian dam disaster; in Toronto...
...Toronto, as usual, is maintaining its position through balance rather than a single high scoring line. Four men have at least four goals, but none has more than six. Howe's five goals have kept Detroit ever with the Maple Leafs. The Red Wings, specially Howe, were tired and slow against Montreal and Boston last weekend, but may pick up now that the pressure is off Howe...