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Pollution pilot Desmond O'Halloran flies his twin-engine Cessna over thousands of miles of shipping lanes
Pollution pilot Desmond O'Halloran flies his twin-engine Cessna over thousands of miles of shipping lanes

Pollution pilot Desmond O'Halloran flies his twin-engine Cessna over thousands of miles of shipping lanes

Date5/23/1972
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Antonio Scopelliti: A gentle shepherd who came thousands of miles from his native Italy, only to find himself embroiled in a killing, was acquitted of murder when a jury believed that he was just defending himself
Antonio Scopelliti: A gentle shepherd who came thousands of miles from his native Italy, only to find himself embroiled in a killing, was acquitted of murder when a jury believed that he was just defending himself
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Daredevil Evil Knievel, who flies over lined-up cars on a steam-powered skycycle, was charged yesterday with speeding in his car at up to 100 miles an hour near Albion, Mich
Daredevil Evil Knievel, who flies over lined-up cars on a steam-powered skycycle, was charged yesterday with speeding in his car at up to 100 miles an hour near Albion, Mich
7/16/1971
New home for Hedgehog: Kim Dormaar, assistant director of new Metro zoo, holds a hedgehog from Asia, one of 5,000 animals, birds, reptiles and fish which will live in the 700-acre zoo. In order to raise funds for the new zoo, Metro's six mayors and thousands of zoo supporters are today walking 15 miles in hopes of raising $500,000 towards $6 million zoo fund objective. The zoo, being built in northeastern corner of Scarborough, will open next summer.
New home for Hedgehog: Kim Dormaar, assistant director of new Metro zoo, holds a hedgehog from Asia, one of 5,000 animals, birds, reptiles and fish which will live in the 700-acre zoo. In order to raise funds for the new zoo, Metro's six mayors and thousands of zoo supporters are today walking 15 miles in hopes of raising $500,000 towards $6 million zoo fund objective. The zoo, being built in northeastern corner of Scarborough, will open next summer.
5/31/1973
Patrick Beyore, 17, who heads an ecology club at Weston Collegiate, recently worked with 50 other students from the borough of York in a clean-up operation at Black Creek. He is just one of the thousands fighting pollution.
Patrick Beyore, 17, who heads an ecology club at Weston Collegiate, recently worked with 50 other students from the borough of York in a clean-up operation at Black Creek. He is just one of the thousands fighting pollution.
7/21/1971
As his fighter plane flies on without him, a German pilot, his parachute not yet opened, tumbles earthward somewhere over France. He hit the silk when(...)
As his fighter plane flies on without him, a German pilot, his parachute not yet opened, tumbles earthward somewhere over France. He hit the silk when(...)
8/2/1944
A smash: Andre Oliver opened his menswear boutique last night in Hazelton Lanes with the help of his friend, Paris designer Pierre Cardin (centre), and the who's who of the Toronto social scene
A smash: Andre Oliver opened his menswear boutique last night in Hazelton Lanes with the help of his friend, Paris designer Pierre Cardin (centre), and the who's who of the Toronto social scene
10/9/1980
Bowled over: Acton Bowling Lanes owner Dave Manse said he struck out when he tried to start a league for non-smokers this year
Bowled over: Acton Bowling Lanes owner Dave Manse said he struck out when he tried to start a league for non-smokers this year
11/12/1992
I'm always meeting people,' streetcleaner Fred Bowers, 64, says as he talks with George Fallis, an attorney who lives on Strathallan Blvd. Most persons on his beat know Bowers, who finds lost children and delivers messages - and, off duty, collect cameras, processes still and movie films, fishes and ties flies.
I'm always meeting people,' streetcleaner Fred Bowers, 64, says as he talks with George Fallis, an attorney who lives on Strathallan Blvd. Most persons on his beat know Bowers, who finds lost children and delivers messages - and, off duty, collect cameras, processes still and movie films, fishes and ties flies.
6/9/1972
Big Jim Leeson parks his Cessna Skyplane, zips up his jacket and goes to pay a house call. By flying, Wiarton's Dr. Leeson figures he's beaten one of the biggest problems facing the progessive rural doctor today: Isolation from his colleagues and the big city medical centres. With his Cessna he can hop down to Toronto in an hour for a lecture. Still, he admits, a rural practice might not be every doctor's cup of tea, I'm a farm boy myself...I'm used to it, he says.
Big Jim Leeson parks his Cessna Skyplane, zips up his jacket and goes to pay a house call. By flying, Wiarton's Dr. Leeson figures he's beaten one of the biggest problems facing the progessive rural doctor today: Isolation from his colleagues and the big city medical centres. With his Cessna he can hop down to Toronto in an hour for a lecture. Still, he admits, a rural practice might not be every doctor's cup of tea, I'm a farm boy myself...I'm used to it, he says.
3/10/1970
Thousands of kilometres away, outside Queen's Park in Toronto, former Soviet dissident Roman Fin, a cancer researcher, quietly dispalys signs and endures his own hunger strike to draw attention to Sakharov's plight. Fin, 42, who has lived here over three
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5/18/1984
Up, up and away: The day is near for veteran pilot Brian Summerfeldt's flight of a lifetime - aloft in the single engine Thorp T-18 airplane that he's jigsawed together for about $15,000 in his Oshawa garage
Up, up and away: The day is near for veteran pilot Brian Summerfeldt's flight of a lifetime - aloft in the single engine Thorp T-18 airplane that he's jigsawed together for about $15,000 in his Oshawa garage
1/27/1993
Everard Sookharry may not want to return home to Trinidad, but at least when he flies out of Toronto he'll be more comfortable than when he flew in
Everard Sookharry may not want to return home to Trinidad, but at least when he flies out of Toronto he'll be more comfortable than when he flew in
10/29/1990