Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years since confederation, only once-in 1926-has a Canadian government been toppled from power by losing a vote in the House of Commons. Last week Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, 67, met Parliament for the first time since last June's elections, commanding a shaky conservative minority of 116 members in the 265-seat Commons. As Governor General Georges Vanier read the traditional speech from the throne setting forth the minority government's legislative program, the question was not so much whether the government will tumble, thrusting Canada into a new national election, but when...
...Minutes of Thought. The rise of Joseph Hirshhorn, from those bleak Brooklyn years to his start as a 17-year-old broker on the New York Curb Exchange and finally to the fortune he has made out of Canadian uranium, has long been a legend in business and financial circles. But even after this legend has faded, he will be remembered as a collector. Every top dealer on both sides of the Atlantic knows the bustling little (5 ft. 4 in.) figure with the torrent of enthusiasm. And scores of U.S. artists who are now prosperous and famous remember...
...DOGMA. Mexican and Canadian bishops are believed to be ready to lobby for a dogma of the church-that Mary the mother of Christ is the mediatrix of all God's grace to man. But a majority of the prelates seem sure that such a doctrine is not "mature" in the mind of the church. Besides, notes one associate of the Pope, "It is not necessary to propose new doctrines which might disturb Protestants and Eastern Christians. We say 'Jesus, Mary and Joseph,' and people think this is some sort of Catholic trinity. This does not presume...
...been ruled ineligible during his freshman year by the Ivy League eligibility committee, because he had once accepted money for playing Junior League A hockey in Canada. But the Ivy League committee reversed its ruling at the start of last year, after studying Kinasewich's scholastic record and his Canadian hockey experience...
...case to the ECAC last June, after Kinasewich had come to the attention of members of the eligibility committee through as article about him in Sports illustrated. The article quoted (or misquoted, as he later claimed) hockey coach Cooney Weiland as saying that Kinasewich was one of the best Canadian hockey players he had come across; it also contained a review of Kinasewich's eligibility troubles with the Ivy League...