Word: locked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dedication site near the St. Lambert lock, Elizabeth pointedly emphasized her role as Queen of Canada: ''The seaway is a magnificent monument to the enduring friendship of our two nations and to their partnership in the development of North America." Ike responded with a tribute to "all the people of Canada over whom you reign." Then, with a slight grin, he continued: "Because we are in this beautiful part of Canada where French is principally spoken [the Queen had delivered part of her speech in French], will you permit me a single halting sentence of my Western prairie...
...Faubus' fight against school integration last month when they washed three Faubusites out of the school board in a recall election (TIME, June 8). Last week a three-judge federal court got on with the job by holding unconstitutional the Faubus-designed state laws that empowered Faubus to lock all four city high schools (2,900 white pupils, 750 Negroes) for the 1958-59 school year and transfer some of their funds to a private school for whites only. By reminding the school board, Faubus and other officials that they are still under a federal court mandate to move...
...ease shipping slow-ups, Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway Administration last week dismayed millions of U.S. and Canadian small boat owners by barring pleasure craft less than 20 ft. from the Canadian locks, i.e., every lock from Montreal to Lake Erie except two U.S. locks near Massena...
...Lock Step. The city they like to show visitors looks something like the better residential sections of Palm Beach, Fla. The ten-minute drive from the airport takes the visitor past block after block of modern houses that range from $50,000 on up to $200,000. This one belongs to Trujillo's son, that one to his daughter. Brother Hector, the nominal...
Trujillo's country home near San Cristobal, 20 miles west in the foothills, is as big as a castle and guarded like one. I went up there with my two policemen buddies, and a soldier dogged me so closely it looked as if we were in lock step. The house itself is an immense pile of plate glass and yellowish-brown stone, with galleries running all around. On the next hilltop was a huge neon sign about 50 ft. by 20 ft. that flashes at night, "telling people," my buddies said, "of all Trujillo's good works...