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Oldtime magicians seemed to breathe the hooded air of the occult. They were like satanists in white ties. Canadian-born Doug Henning, 27, is not at all like that. Physically wispy, amiably diffident and almost self-surprised, he creates the impression of a boyish Walter Mitty who imagines that he could be a magician...
...same vague but pervasive public suspicion that they have conspired to create the shortage-a charge for which there is no evidence-or at minimum have taken advantage of it to enrich themselves by raising prices. Much of the attack focuses on Exxon's executives, ranging downward from Canadian-born Chairman John Kenneth Jamieson (see box following page). Such men are several light-years removed from the vulgar, wheeler-dealer, overnight Texas oil millionaires of popular myth and occasional reality. Still, as successors of Founder John D. Rockefeller, they must contend with memories of the evils of the old Standard...
...only a 17-year-old errand boy to John D. Rockefeller when he became convinced of Russia's industrial potential. So as Canadian-born, Cleveland-based Cyrus Eaton made and remade several industrial fortunes in steel, railroads and rubber over the years, he also worked for détente between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.: traveling behind the Iron Curtain, playing host to Russian leaders when they visited the U.S., proposing trade deals and in 1957 assembling at his original home in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, one of the first international scientific conferences to discuss the dangers of nuclear disaster...
Murry has placed as high as third in the Nationals and will compete in them again this January. Her father, a Canadian-born hockey player, first interested her in skating. With constant practice at a rink a block from her house. Murry has developed into one of the top ten figure-skaters in the world...
Femininity, to some nostrils, is a kind of scent that gets left on the work of art by skin contact. Sometimes it is a matter of technique: if Canadian-born Joyce Wieland executes a series of tenderly ironic icons of her native landscape, like Spring Tree, 1971, and does them by quilting, sewing and stuffing various cloths, it will inevitably be related to the small world of the sewing box; whereas if Claes Oldenburg sews and stuffs, it must be for other reasons...