Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frets & Fears. For all its wonders of communications, coordination and electronics, there are some gaps in NORAD's shield-and no one is more aware of them than NORAD's integrated U.S. and Canadian staff, which is directly responsible to the U.S. Joint Chiefs and the Canadian Chiefs of Staff Committee. NORAD directs some 50 fighter-interceptor squadrons, and has absorbed the former Air Defense Commands of the two countries. Most of the detection system's aircraft-seeking radar and all its missile-hunting antennas are poised toward the north, in logical anticipation of a possible polar...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, 53, bestselling controversialist (The Affluent Society), Harvard economics professor and sometime speechwriter for Adlai Stevenson and Kennedy. Canadian-born Galbraith has had half a dozen Government jobs, since 1956 has compiled searching surveys of India's economy, and is now Ambassador to India...
Bundled against the Canadian chill, Britain's "Minister for Europe," Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath, flew into Ottawa last week to batten down some Commonwealth hatches before Britain sails into the European Common Market. After the usual pleasantries in the airport VIP lounge, a newsman pushed a microphone at Heath: "Just say that you've come to assuage Canadian anxiety...
...vast natural resources, Canada must trade to grow, and Britain's prospective entry into the Common Market, perhaps bringing an end to its cozy Commonwealth tariff preferences, is a source of anxiety.How deep the anxiety goes was indicated last fall at the Commonwealth conference in Ghana, where a Canadian Cabinet minister bluntly warned the British that their Common Market entry "could weaken the Commonwealth to a point where it exists in name only...
...billion), and by holding down imports, Canada enjoyed its first merchandise trade surplus since 1956. Trade and Commerce Minister George Hees, who likes to wear gold cufflinks initialed G.O.Y.B.S.A.S. (meaning "Get Off Your Back Side And Sell"), sent his tradesmen to cultivate markets wherever they could find them. Canadian sales to Eastern Europe are up 90%, to Latin America 36%, to Asia a muscular 61% (to $312 million). Biggest Asian customer is famine-struck Red China, which has engaged to buy $425.6 million worth of Canadian grain over the next 2½ years. Canada's qualms in the matter...