Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Larrive Two-Mile, a star was born. Bruce Kidd, a 17-year-old high school senior from Toronto, took the lead with four laps to go and held off a determined challenge by Pete McArdle, a 30-year-old veteran from New York. Kidd's winning time, a meet and Garden record, was 8:49.2. Fred Norris, the 39-year-old freshman from McNeese State, came in third...
...Gloria (surname: Ziraldo), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did "chorus work" in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when "we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all. But the ships are very slow now, and we don't get so many sailors any more." The uptown crowd has moved in, and what girl worth her seventh veil would trade a turtleneck sweater for a button-down collar...
...Leap. Although U.S. scientists may not visit Red China, Canadian scientists can and do. Professor J. Tuzo Wilson of the University of Toronto said that when he went to China in 1958 as president of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, he found Chinese science in a thriving state. The Communist regime is pouring money and effort into its scientific "leap ahead," and the participants are fired by nationalistic fervor, even though many of them may not like Communism as such. A sad contrast, said Wilson, is the low morale among scientists on Formosa, where the Chinese Nationalist government...
With visions of sugar plums, Canadians eagerly awaited Finance Minister Donald Fleming's appearance before Parliament to present the government's antirecession midterm budget. EXPECT FLEMING TO CUT TAXES, the Toronto Globe and Mail headlined. PREHOLIDAY BABY BUDGET BEARS GIFTS, predicted the Ottawa Citizen. One night last week Donald Fleming stood before Commons, and in his firm baritone voice spoke for 96 minutes. The news was mostly bad. The nation will end fiscal 1960 about $300 million in the red-bringing the Diefenbaker government's deficit to $1.3 billion in 3½ years. Instead of the predicted...
...Percentage Ploy. Last week, in Toronto on the last lap of a tour that included hearings in eight Canadian cities, the O'Leary Commission was mulling over proposals that included establishment of a tariff to keep out non-Canadian publications, subsidies and tax benefits for Canadian magazines-and doing nothing at all. The commissioners had heard much testimony in favor of the Canadian publishers' thesis, but here and there another voice was raised. Sardonically noting that as a regional publisher he had to contend with the same competition from Canada's national magazines that they complain...