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51. Canada's Magdalen Islands recently assumed a new importance when they were discovered to have valuable:
1. Nickel deposits. 4. Phosphates.
2. Oil deposits. 5. Manganese ore.
3. Uranium.
52. Among other drastic restrictions, the citizens of Canada suddenly found that if they wanted to take a vacation in the U.S. they:
1. Could stay only 2 weeks.
2. Had to have dollars sent from across the border.
3. Could spend only $150 a year on such trips.
4. Had to have a visa for the first time in history.
5. Had to have a passport.
53. The Canadian government boldly set the Dominion's economy on a new course with sweeping pronouncements that placed restrictions on all but one of these imports from the U.S.:
1. Automobiles. 2. Radios. 3. Jewelry.
4. Fresh fruits and vegetables.
5. Woolens.
54. Panama's National Assembly turned down a treaty which would:
1. Permit U.S. engineers to make a preliminary investigation of a shorter canal route.
2. Give the U.S. 14 air bases on Panamanian territory.
3. Sanction a 20% overall tariff reduction on the goods of all other Latin American nations.
4. Extend to all U.N. members equal rights to use of the Panama Canal.
5. In effect, make Panama a satellite of Colombia.
AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE NEWS
Directions: Located on this map, and identified in the statements below, are scenes of recent developments in the news. Write on the answer sheet (opposite the number of each statement) the number which correctly locates the place or event described.
55. Here, late in 1947, the Big Four Foreign Ministers met, argued, resolved nothing.
56. UNESCO voted $100,000 for scientific study of this region.
57. Designated a secret proving ground for U.S. atomic-energy experiments.
58. Here the Communists put on a drive to woo the formerly despised middle classes.
59. Here economic advance and a big increase in population gave the people an increasing hunger for U.S. statehood.
60. A military coup led by Strong Man Phibun Songgram seized the government here in November.
61. Ceremonies held on December 2 marked the birth of the atomic bomb here five years ago.
62. Headquarters from the Arab League leaders threatened open warfare on all Jews.
63. Where U.N. General Assembly sat last fall.
64. 50,000 persons were reported skilled, another 100,000 driven from their homes in religious-political war here.
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
65. Closest thing to producing life in a test tube was recently achieved by Nobel Prize Winner Wendell Meredith Stanley, who reported:
1. Reviving an apparently dead lung fish by chemical means.
2. Bringing back to life apparently dead virus.
3. Experiments in keeping alive animal organs for months after their severance from the animal.
4. The effects of certain chemical and atomic-energy combinations.
5. His successful efforts to produce pregnancy in rabbits by chemical means.
66. Working with corn seed that had been exposed to radio-activity in the Bikini bomb tests, Dr. Ernest G. Anderson of the California Institute of Technology found that:
1. The offspring were superior in size.
2. A large percentage of the offspring were abnormal.
3.