Word: toronto
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...lusty heyday, the Toronto Star, Canada's biggest paper, once hired an entire railroad train to get its men to a story, invariably called liquor "booze," and interviewed heiresses and potentates around the globe. Last week Star readers might have wondered whether they were in for a new era of eccentric journalism: as new boss of the Star's news-gathering staff, the paper named Dr. (of Divinity) Charles B. Templeton, 44, who once cut a wide swath in Canada and the U.S. as a boy-wonder evangelist...
...Sawdust Trail. A Toronto boy, Templeton set pole-vaulting and track records as a schoolboy athlete, quit high school to take art lessons and play football for Toronto's Balmy Beach. At 20 he was a sports cartoonist for the Globe and Mail and syndicated in 18 papers when, as he later testified, "in the midst of my success I saw the futility of my life." That led Templeton to the further discovery that he had an electric touch with religious audiences, and he went off to spend three years on the sawdust trail as an itinerant preacher...
...over again. When Lumumba suddenly announced plans to fly to Stanleyville to demonstrate "how peaceful everything there is." a rumor swept the waiting crowd that Belgian paratroops were coming to grab the Premier. At that unfortunate moment, a U.S. Air Force Globemaster roared in to Stanleyville from Toronto, carrying Canadian signal equipment and personnel. Surrounding the plane, the howling mob dragged out the eight American crewmen, beating them with rifle butts and sticks. U.N. Ethiopian troops rescued three of the Americans and several bruised Canadians whom the Congolese had hauled off to prison. But in the meantime, other Congolese troops...
Wearing shorts and slim jims, a Stratford, Ont. Festival troupe in the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s Studio Seven in Toronto last week began a rigorous 100 hours of rehearsal before the mast of H.M.S. Pinafore. Six weeks hence, the Gilbert & Sullivan classic will open a Canadian fall television season full of attractions that many a U.S. viewer will envy...
Moving Climax was only one of John Galbreath's ambitious undertakings last week. In Manhattan he is putting up the 41-story Continental Can Co. building; near Toronto he is building Bramalea, a $500 million "satellite city." He plans to add 500 houses to two towns he built in Minnesota for Reserve Mining Co. employees, is building a new town-Kearney, Ariz.-for employees of the Kennecott Copper Corp. He plans to put up an $18 million building for the Marine National Exchange Bank in Milwaukee. In all, Galbreath's company does some $100 million worth of business...