Word: newfoundland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Average age of the students is close to 37. Attending class at night, they can earn only about 15 credit hours a year (half the normal rate), and the consequences of cutting class are clear. One jet pilot, forced to eject over Newfoundland, landed in bush so wild that a helicopter had to haul him out. All he could think of was getting back for his class. He made it. "Our students may not all be brilliant," says Dean Ehrensberger, "but they sure are motivated...
States' Rights. In Carbonear, Newfoundland, the city council turned off water for ten days at the federal post office and customs building because the government had not paid its water bill...
...Force Boeing 707 jet, accompanied by Chris Herter, the President left Maryland at 3:57 one morning last week, touched down in Newfoundland for a refueling and coffee stop, swept on across the Atlantic to land at Cologne-Bonn's Wahn Airport at 6:30 p.m. Bonn time. Bundeswehr artillery fired a 21-gun salute; a band played The Star-Spangled Banner and Deutschlandlied. Old Chancellar Konrad Adenauer, erect and brisk, stepped forward to greet the President, hailed the U.S. as "the standard-bearer of freedom." The President replied: "The name Adenauer has come to symbolize the determination...
...surface. In far northern and far southern parts of the ocean,-the surface water gets so cold and heavy in winter that it sinks and is replaced by bottom water that contains plant nutrients. Currents carry these nutrients to other seas, e.g., the Labrador Current off the Newfoundland banks, the Peru Current off the coast of South America, and produce rich fishing grounds...
...Canada see the Queen whose full Canadian title is "Elizabeth the Second, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and her other realms and territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith." When the Queen's silver Cornet touches down at Newfoundland's St. John's Airport this week, she will whisk into an itinerary that, for all the press of excited planning across Canada, hews to cozy informality. Banished is the usual stuffy round of honor-guard reviews, cornerstone layings, garden parties. Tarrying for only a day or less in such...