Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings scored the 545th goal of his carear Sunday night against Montreal to become the highest scorer in National Hockey League history. The old record was held by an ex-Canadian, Maurice Richard. It was Howe's 1,132nd game in the NHL. Richard had needed only 978 games to score his 544 goals...
...there is one Canadian institution that every American knows about it is the Mountie-that strapping, red-coated fellow who always gets his man, and at the sight of a woman will break into Oh, Rose Marie, I Love You. Any Canadian knows better. Last week the Mounties got a new chief, George B. McClellan, a Mountie for 31 of his 55 years, whose workaday uniform is chocolate-brown, not scarlet and blue. His horse went out to pasture long ago, and his policeman's beat covers a far more complicated world than thieving trappers and primitive Eskimos...
...tall, or better. But that was like wearing a "Kick Me" sign in the shadowy world of plain-clothes police work. Today's Mounties only have to measure an "average" 5 ft. 8 in.-and they are busily infiltrating the Montreal heroin syndicates, ingratiating themselves with boastful Canadian income tax dodgers, posing as gullible game for confidence...
...planes and helicopters that acts as a search and rescue service. In their grey stone Ottawa headquarters, the Mounties have access to the most modern anti-crime laboratories, plus bank upon bank of filing cabinets filled with criminal identification data. Mounties serve as provincial police in eight Canadian provinces (all except Quebec and Ontario), are the municipal cops in 120 towns and villages, and nab thousands of speeders yearly on Canada's highways...
Like What He Is. Last summer he hired a yacht for a vacation cruise of Canadian waters. But he was bored. "Fish don't applaud," he explains. Applause is the only income he really cares about. He particularly enjoys it in the form, say, of the medal recently pinned on him by President Kennedy for his countless appearances before U.S. servicemen during and since World...