Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France's Flight 136 from Paris landed at Tel Aviv's Lydda International Airport and discharged a dozen passen gers. One of them, a balding man in dark glasses, made straight for the arrival hut, displayed a Canadian passport, No. 4-328384. Name: Beras Goble. Age: 72. Occupation: Engineer. Permanent Residence: Montreal. The police and customs passed him on quickly...
Russia last year cut its economic aid to China by 45%; total Chinese trade with Russia was down $650 million. Nor was China's economic plight helped when it had to put up hard currency for Canadian grains and British industrial imports. "Our socialist brothers are having many difficulties," a Soviet diplomat recently chortled in Washington. "And they are not over them yet-no, not for some time." Meanwhile, the U.S. is banking heavily on the breakup of the Communist "monolith." State Department officials, who a few years ago were gloomily talking of a "lifelong struggle" in the aftermath...
...Diefenbaker insisted that the crisis had just blown up "in very recent days." But his measures were forced by the fact that gold and dollar reserves had dwindled almost $400 million in the previous three weeks, and a total of nearly $1 billion in the past six months. Canadian skeptics looked at the long list of specific imported items on which graduated surcharges were scheduled to be collected, and detected signs of prior planning...
Before going off for a fortnight's pre-campaign rest at his Canadian cottage, George Romney, 54, drew a firm line against stumping on Sunday during Michigan's coming gubernatorial race. The teetotaling Mormon, who recently resigned as American Motors boss, will reserve Sundays for "church and family." Democrats do not expect their incumbent Governor, John Swainson, to be quite that saintly, have scheduled a full list of Sunday appearances at church socials, firemen's outings and ward picnics...
...Canadian newspapers this week, full-page ads purchased by Boston's near-bankrupt Northeast Airlines will thankfully proclaim: "Welcome aboard. Howard Hughes!" After stalling off enigmatic Industrialist Hughes for two solid years, the Civil Aeronautics Board last week grudgingly authorized his Hughes Tool Co. to buy 56% of Northeast's outstanding stock from New York's Atlas Corp. The consideration that finally turned the tide in Hughes's favor, said the CAB in its caustic decision, was "not whether Hughes Tool Co. could provide efficient management, but whether Northeast would have any management...