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Last week's angriest demonstration occurred in Winnipeg, where a group of Ukrainian-Canadians gathered at the gates of the airport when the Russians landed. When a car with four husky passengers drove out, the crowd surged around it. Men and women screamed epithets in Russian, someone flung a black mourning wreath ("For Brothers Murdered By Bolsheviks"), and a husky demonstrator poked his fist through one of the car windows before word got around that the passengers were not Russians at all, but Mounties in civilian clothes. After that, the forewarned welcoming committee whisked the Russians through a side...
Trans-Canada planned originally to run a spur line from Winnipeg south to rich U.S. markets, but this proposal was vetoed by the Canadian government, which as a matter of national pride wanted the company to build the line across Canada to Toronto and Montreal before shipping any gas to the U.S. Because much of the route would be through thinly populated areas where there are no cash customers for gas, potential investors objected that Trans-Canada would have no income while the line was being built and, even after it was completed, would still have to develop its eastern...
...million cu. ft. of Alberta gas daily at the Manitoba-Minnesota border, and another 200 million cu. ft. a day when more gas becomes available. To supply T.G.T., Trans-Canada will build the first 670-mile leg of its line from the fields in Alberta to Winnipeg and the border. From the Minnesota border below Winnipeg, T.G.T. will build a $100 million, 1,050-mile pipeline to its trunk line at Portland, Tenn., selling Canadian gas on the way through Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana...
...Seaway, which accompanies four pages of scenic river views in color in this week's issue, was written by Edwin Copps, senior writer in the CANADA section, who was born in Eganville, near Ottawa. Researcher for the story is another Canadian, Harriet Ben Ezra, who was born in Winnipeg. Working on the story of the actual start of the seaway was a pleasing assignment for Copps. "It made Harriet and me feel sort of patriotic," he said...
...Scientist Louis Slotin, 35, of Winnipeg, Canada, dropped a screw driver during a similar experiment, died after eight days. The book is dedicated to his memory and to that of "more than one hundred thousand others...