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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...slightest violation of the course line would have disqualified the flight. Said General Moore: "It was like running blindfolded at top speed into a completely dark room, then running a perfect circle guided by the voice of someone outside the room." The "voice" outside, of course, was a form of radar ground control similar to that which helps aircraft land in bad weather...
...worked on an oil rig. They were hired because of the difficulty of recruiting white workers, mostly married, for long term work so far north. Three were taken on last summer and flown south for training on Alberta rigs. One went back to muskrat trapping, but the other two form the nucleus of the six-man Eskimo contingent on the well...
Financial responsibility for student plays is not pinned down in the preliminary constitution, and "will be assigned as appropriate" by the administrative committee. The higher cost of staging a production in the Center makes some form of University subsidization seem likely, however...
...form of the ceremony was nearly as old as Parliament itself, but the man so honored was new. Resplendent in his red-and-silver-trimmed black uniform, tall, courtly Governor General George Philias Vanier, 71, first French Canadian to serve as the Queen's Viceroy in Canada (TIME, Sept. 21), had arrived to open Parliament. In the crowded Senate chamber, he read his first Speech from the Throne. By his side, regal in red velvet and diamonds, was his handsome wife Pauline...
...dying of cancer of the liver in the spring of 1957, Ronald Knox asked friends to "ask our Lord to let me have the gift of perseverance." To one, he wrote with characteristic diffidence, "I gather this kind of cancer doesn't mean suffering in any acute form-I expect I'm not worthy of it." His last three days were spent in a coma. Once he roused, and a Lady Eldon at his bedside asked if he would like her to read to him from "his" New Testament. He replied with a faint but distinct "No"; then...