Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experiences in the course of this assignment were somewhat less exotic than those of his earlier far-north forays, but one was little less surprising. This happened when the cover subject, Premier W.A.C. Bennett, told him: "If it weren't for one of your people, I wouldn't be here in British Columbia at all." Bennett then explained that he started a hardware store in Kelowna, B.C., in 1930, with the moral and financial support of John Truscott Elson, the vice president of an international hardware distributing firm. He was the father of Robert Truscott Elson, an executive...
...Columbia's totem poles, snow-capped mountains, fresh water, lumbering and petroleum industries. In the process, he talked the management of one plant into lighting up early so that he could see the smokestack flame in the right light. He found the pointing pose highly appropriate for Premier Bennett, as he considered his subject "a gesticulating man." Studying the painting in the light of the hitherto untold story of bustling growth and wealth in Western Canada, one office caption writer suggested that the title might have been "This way to the bank...
...exemplifies that spirit of machine-tooled pioneering better than British Columbia's Premier William Andrew Cecil Bennett, 66, full-time politician and part-time prophet. He feels that Canada's thin population belt must push into the undeveloped North and the still developing West. "Canada is as broad as the U.S.," Bennett says, "but only half an inch deep. Until we push up from the border, we just won't go anywhere." Bennett himself has been pushing for 14 years, and it is his sort of effort that lies behind Canada's hope for the future...
...Bennett's dream of developing the vast mineral riches of the north is hydroelectric power, and in this, the premier has proved himself a locksmith with few peers. Under the Canada-U.S. Columbia River treaty, Bennett is building three massive storage dams on the Columbia that will hugely increase the hydro power that such U.S. dams as Grand Coulee can generate downstream. Half that extra power will be Bennett's, and he has already sold it to a consortium of U.S. power companies for a sum that more than pays for the dams. When Lyndon Johnson...
...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn," an adaptation of John (The Spy Who Came In . . .) Le Carré's story about an ingenious escape plan from Communist East Berlin. Filmed in medieval West German towns, with James Mason, Hugh Griffith and Jill Bennett in the leading roles...