Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Armstrong-Jones, besides being Princess Margaret's husband, is also the Earl of Snowdon and until his career ended in marriage, he was a competent freelance photographer. Weighing all these credentials, Roy Thomson, Canadian-born publisher of 93 papers, had hired Tony as "artistic adviser" to Thomson's prestigious London Sunday Times (circ. 1,022,913). The salary-a reported 7,500 quid ($21,000)-was regal enough on Fleet Street. But the rest of Fleet Street promptly hollered foul...
...Fishing buffs who yearn after marlin and giant tuna congregate at Cat Cay, which Ad Tycoon Louis R. Wasey has turned into a fishing paradise for himself. 15 fellow estatesmen, and up to 36 approved paying guests. On a 4,000-acre islet called Lyford Cay in Nassau harbor, Canadian Financier Edward Plunket Taylor has spent $17 million providing a fitting setting for the homes of such notables as Henry Ford II and the Earl of Dudley...
...Frenchman's Cove, on the other end of the island, Canadian Cookie Millionaire...
...publicized performers. John Thomas of B.U. and Bruce Kidd, the Canadian two-miler, were toppled in their specialties. Thomas, unable to concentrate in the high jump, lost on the bases of fewer misses to Lt. Bob Gardner. Both were stymied at 6' 8". The Crimson's Marty Beckwith was eliminated...
...brokers no longer do their trading from the curbstones of Lower Manhattan dressed in zebra-striped hats and bright blazers, but SEC found that several of the stocks they trade in their spacious hall ("a large number of these have been stock of Canadian mining or oil companies") are as risky as they were in the days of the '49 Gold Rush. "While undoubtedly the great majority of issuers of listed stocks are sound business enterprises," noted SEC, "the Exchange has appeared reluctant to suspend or de-list issues whose future prospects have proved...