Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they go, but they hardly go far enough. No one activity has ever been able to contain the Beaver's passion; it burns in everything he says and does. "I am the victim of the Furies. On the rock-bound coast of New Brunswick," he said, recalling his Canadian youth, "the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave smashing viciously against the rock. It is called The Rage. That's me." On reaching 70, a nice round retirement number, he thundered: "I'll not give up my temper...
...than 2,000 passengers a day. Air bridges also reach from Rio to Brasília and to the inland industrial city of Belo Horizonte. Last year the country's eight heavily subsidized commercial airlines carried 4,000,000 passengers nearly 2 billion passenger-miles; only U.S. and Canadian airlines in the free world cope with more domestic traffic in a year...
Jennie is a slice of biography dealing with seven months in the life of Actress Laurette Taylor just after the turn of the century. The show opens on a scene that includes a 20-ft. waterfall, a whip-cracking villain, a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman tied to a tree, and the heroine (Mary Martin) fighting off savage coolies with a baby in her arms (Oct. 17). The life of Fanny Brice has also been turned into a musical called Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand singing a score by Jule Styne...
Wills have been written on everything from the walls of Egyptian tombs to the back of a bridge score card. A Canadian farmer, pinned fatally under a tractor, scratched his last testament on its fender (which now duly reposes among the local archives); a dying California oldster scrawled his on the petticoat of an obliging nurse...
...Statlers. Hilton listens to the board's advice and usually gives in gracefully to strong opposition to his schemes. But when he thinks he is right, he is hard to turn aside. "Behind that pleasant exterior is a hard business mind," says Donald Gordon, president of the Canadian National Railways, which owns the Hilton-operated Queen Elizabeth hotel in Montreal. "He is not belligerent, but he is tenacious...