Word: cana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first visit as Queen in 1957, Britain's Elizabeth was lustily cheered. Now she is coming to mark the 100th anniversary of the beginnings of Cana dian confederation, and there lies the trouble. In the last few years, the long-smoldering antagonism between English and French Canadians has erupted in bitter, open division. Centered in the province of Quebec, French Canadians are in revolt against what they regard as a century of British domination; they demand a stronger voice in federal affairs and greater provincial autonomy. A small but growing number wants to split Canada into separate nations...
Whether they do or not, the Cana dian government has laid on the most extensive security precautions in Canada's peacetime history. The Queen will visit only three cities: Charlottetown on English-speaking Prince Edward Is land, the Quebec capital of Quebec City, and the federal capital at Ottawa. As she sails up the St. Lawrence River aboard the royal yacht Britannia, frog men will check the hull for mines at every stop. During parades, she will ride in a closed, bulletproof limousine, and in Quebec City a fleet of armored riot-control trucks awaits...
...years ago this week, Army General Alfredo Stroessner seized control of Paraguay in a classic South American palace coup. He is still the landlocked little nation's undisputed Numero Uno. But no swelling bands or fancy parades will mark the anniversary. Stroessner may hoist a cup of fiery cana, the local rum, with a few army cronies- nothing more. At 51, he looks and acts more like a mild-mannered businessman than the most durable of Latin military dictators. Today the important thing for Stroessner is not the tormented past, and his own part in it, but the progress...
...other Scholars are: Mrs. Beatrice Lauter of Geneva, N.Y., Mrs. Hazel Morrison and Mrs. Mary Sadovnikoff of Providence, R.I., Miss Denise Levertov of New York City. Miss Ilse Hecht of Berlin, and Mrs. Cana Maeda and Miss Michiko Inukal of Tokyo...
...their economic lessons from the Book of Progress. The new town boasts a textile mill, chocolate-processing plant, 750-seat movie theater and 48-store shopping center. Being built is an 80-unit housing development whose windows overlook Mount Tabor, the site of Christ's Transfiguration, and nearby Cana, the scene of his first miracle. The new Nazareth is the work of Rassco, a broad-ranging corporation that has become Israel's largest private employer...