Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Getting up from the dinner table one evening last week, a family in suburban Toronto could break out the Remy Martin, drop three fifty-cent pieces into a coin box and watch Menotti's opera The Consul. It was a superb production, prepared especially by a Broadway company with Patricia Neway in her original role...
...While Toronto's 13-month-old pay-TV experiment was thus moving from movies and sports to more ambitious programs, "fee-vee" was ready to pick up the coin elsewhere. The Federal Communications Commission has approved a three-year test of pay TV in Hartford, Conn., where subscribers will get 40 hours a week of first-run Hollywood films, Broadway plays, live opera and sports. Other tests are scheduled for Liberal, Kans., Little Rock, the New York area and Hawaii...
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Next: Asia & Air. Today, after 60 years in business, the Open Air Campaigners have 20 paid workers ($45 a week), 200 volunteers and 14 mobile pulpits in Australia. Since World War II, branches have opened in Queensland, Tasmania and New Zealand, as well as in Toronto and Chicago, and the Campaigners hope to tackle Asia next. The O.A.C. is designed as a task force to hit all evangelical targets-factories, parks, lunch counters and busy streets. This year the group will tie up with Aerial Missions, an offshoot of the U.S. Missionary Aviation Fellowship, to reach the big cattle...
Briefly cornered by a Financial Post reporter in Toronto's Royal York Hotel last week, Liu denied that China has any further need for Canadian foodstuffs or metals, just the opposite of what Canadian traders had surmised. Last year more than 1,500,000 lbs. of Canadian nickel went to Red China via Hong Kong, and Sherritt Gordon Mines Ltd. shipped another 1,039,800 Ibs. to China directly, boosting Canada's 1960 China trade to $20 million. But in view of China's calamitous crop losses to flood and drought, Ottawa is still betting...