Word: canada
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shakespeare is not a national possession; he belongs to the whole world. Six years ago Canada founded its own Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Ontario. And four years ago the United States saw the start of its own annual Stratford Festival. We often do things with amazing speed in this country, and these four short years have enabled Stratford-on-Housatonic to raise its head high among the other Stratfords...
...Canada has issued no formal statement of policy, nor has it announced any plans for the coming U.N. General Assembly. Washington hopes that the government recalls some clearheaded remarks delivered in the House of Commons last year: "I think the experience of the United Kingdom, which recognized Communist China prior to the Korean war, has added little to the extension or expansion of trade between that country and Communist China . . . Until such time as the Communist government of China expiates its wrongdoing under international law there certainly will be no justification for the granting of recognition.'' The speaker...
...China, might agree, thus shattering the Western front against U.N. recognition of the Reds. It is an open secret in Washington that Prime Minister Diefenbaker has pressed President Eisenhower for a softer policy toward Red China. The State Department was also jolted by Diefenbaker's hint that Canada might take the initiative to turn the Quemoy crisis over...
...Even as an English-born bank clerk in Glasgow, he dashed off doggerel for the weeklies, and burned with an adventurer's ambition to make a million dollars, write 1,000 poems, and live for a century. In hot pursuit of these ends, he hopped a freighter to Canada in 1895, a ruddy-faced, guitar-playing, wind-drifted 21-year-old fiddle-foot with a Scottish burr. He worked anywhere, at anything-swilling swine in British Columbia, tending roses...
...Canada's Christopher Plummer, a talented actor (Broadway's The Lark, TV's Little Moon of Alban), arrives in turn-of-the-century Miami, where he harkens to tales about Cottonmouth (Burl Ives), a red-bearded snake charmer off in the Everglades whose band of swamp angels (including such old Thespians as ex-Pug Tony Galento, Clown Emmett Kelly, Jockey Sammy Renick) pick off the wildlife like hungry dogs in a horsemeat factory. Modern hunters would do well to study their technique: every bird they shoot falls within 2 ft. of their boats...