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Putting Out Branches. Farther west, on 1,200 acres along the Red River at Winnipeg, the University of Manitoba has put up 40 buildings in ten years. Some of them are for a new University College based on Oxbridge, where each student wears a burgundy-colored robe and is assigned to a tutor. Manitoba's plant scientists are close to producing the first new species of grain developed by man: a combination of wheat...
...mismatched, which explains the keen interest in embryatrics in South America. But there are so many cases in North America that it is being tried in at least two medical centers in New York City, and at others in Rochester, N.Y., Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Winnipeg. About half of the hundred or more babies treated have been saved. Last month the University of California's Dr. Jimmie Alf Westberg flew to Phoenix and supervised a Liley-style transfusion. The 40-year-old mother had lost ten babies to Rh incompatibility. Her latest pregnancy will have...
...mile Great Northern Railway, the 6,682-mile Northern Pacific, the 8,546-mile Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the 965-mile Spokane, Portland & Seattle. The result, including a few subsidiaries, would be a 26,564-mile system that would stretch from Chicago to Vancouver, B.C., and from Winnipeg to Galveston, rank third among U.S. railroads (after the Pennsylvania and Southern Pacific) in annual revenues, with its $775 million. The examiner, Robert H. Murphy, based his recommendation on the fact that the once powerful roads, though still making a profit, have suffered a "steady deterioration" in their financial condition. Reasons...
Prime Minister Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson stood before the Royal Canadian Legion in Winnipeg, discussing a subject near to his heart. During his election campaign in the spring of 1963, he had promised to give Canada a national flag of its own to take the place of Britain's Union Jack and Canada's semi official Red Ensign, incorporating the Union Jack and the Canadian coat of arms. Now, said Pearson, he was ready with a design. As later approved by his Cabinet, the flag features three red maple leaves on a white field with a vertical blue...
...shell of protest; Pearson with a flag in one hand, a gun in the other, threatening John Q. Canada. Vowed Newfoundland's Premier: "We will continue to fly the Union Jack if we are the last place in Canada to do it." In angry letters to a Winnipeg newspaper, Pearson was voted down...