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Visitors Welcome. Such concerns aside, Canada is justly proud of its achievements. Next year's centennial shivaree will symbolize this pride. It will be the longest and one of the most expensive birthday blowouts any nation has ever had. At the spectacular harbor site of Expo 67, on mainly manmade islands in the St. Lawrence River, the pavilions of 70 nations, which are now abuilding, will welcome visitors. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have already accepted invitations. The Parliament buildings in Ottawa will provide a backdrop for a May-to-October son et lumiere spectacle, and Sir Tyrone Guthrie...
...elephants, he continued, has the longest tusks in the world. Among other details to be worked out, the Lampoon has ordered 100 bows and harmless arrows...
Apparently taking Barr's comment as an indication that the Johnson Administration may take decisive action in the economic field, the market bounded up smartly. The Dow-Jones average gained 8.69 points Tuesday, 12.69 points Wednesday and 3.68 points Thursday for the longest rally in a month. Blue-chip industrial stocks, among the biggest losers in the market's seven-month slump, led the comeback. Some of the long-missing investment demand came from institutions that have been sitting on the sidelines...
...hour to $4.08 an hour by May 1, 1968. The pact also boosts holiday pay from double time to double time and a half, calls for 50-an-hour company contributions (up to $2 a week) toward health and welfare plans, provides the union with what the airlines fought longest and hardest to avoid: an automatic further pay increase of up to 60 an hour if the cost of living keeps rising at about its present pace. With that, the mechanics will not only keep their rank as the nation's top-paid industrial production workers (runners...
After more than 13 years on Death Row-the longest such period in U.S. history-two convicted Negro rapists were ordered freed last week by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. The court ruled that Edgar Labat, 43, and Clifton Alton Poret, 37, had been denied fair trial by the all-white jury system of Orleans Parish (then 32% Negro), which had never allowed a single Negro to serve on a criminal jury...