Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Samoan natives insisted that the moon had burst, and a Bible-reading lady in New Zealand called a newspaper office to ask calmly if the end of the world had begun. Watchers on the beach at Hawaii gasped in surprise at the unexpected daylight, and the pilot of a Canadian Pacific airliner flying to Sydney turned his plane about to give his passengers a breathtaking view of the eerie sight. "Everybody has seen fireballs in pictures." said an amazed Hawaiian, "but no one has ever seen the sky on fire before...
...billion, a near record, putting the balance of trade at an annual rate of $5 billion in the U.S.'s favor. The hopeful balance-of-payments figures were also helped along by a decrease in short-term capital outflow (thanks in part to devaluation of the Canadian dollar) and the prepayment by France of $293.4 million owed to the U.S. Last week's drop in the gold supply to a 23-year low, which alarmed many who read the financial pages, was largely accounted for by a single transaction: France's routine exchange of $112 million...
...Swiss-born jurist, Jean Louis DeLolme, once declared that a British legislature "can do everything except make a woman into a man or a man into a woman." Last week, as angry doctors in the western Canadian province of Saskatchewan went into the second week of their strike against a new, compulsory state medical insurance plan, Premier Woodrow Lloyd's socialist government stoutly refused to give way on its plan. But the emerging question was whether-as happened with Prohibition-any legislation can be effective without the consent of the people it most closely concerns...
...moment, no one in the province lacked emergency care. Of Saskatchewan's normal strength of 900 doctors, 336 were still on duty, including 189 who are manning free emergency clinics set up by the Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Arthur Kelly, general secretary of the Canadian Medical Association, warned that the impasse might continue "for a considerable time-possibly several months." If so. many doctors might make good their threat to move to the U.S. So far, 40 already have...
First countermeasure tried by the fishes' human allies was electrical barriers across stream mouths to keep mature lampreys from swimming upstream to spawn. But many streams were already packed with growing larvae from lamprey eggs, so the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Canadian Department of Fisheries decid ed to destroy the larvae themselves. In search of a selective lamprey-larva poison, they tried more than 6,000 different chemicals on jars containing two lamprey lar vae, two bluegill fingerlings and two small rainbow trout. Some chemicals killed nothing; some killed both larvae and fish. Some killed...