Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hustling into Manhattan to accept the Heisman Trophy, Ernie Davis, 22, the first Negro ever to be chosen as football's ''outstanding college player," got his hand shaken by President Kennedy, was gang-tackled by emissaries of a Canadian pro team and both U.S. professional leagues, each of which has made him its top draft choice. By opting for the National Football League, the thumping Syracuse University halfback could probably share with Michigan State's Ron Hatcher the distinction of being the first of their race to play for the Washington Redskins. But for Ernie this...
...tribe and save his people. Campbell, 39, also built the foundations of his career in Britain's repertory companies. Born in Glasgow and married to Actress Ann Casson, daughter of Sir Lewis Casson and Dame Sybil Thorndike, Campbell moved to Canada seven years ago, has become a Canadian citizen, lives in Stratford, Ont., where he is a steady performer and occasional director of the Festival Theater. A strapping, 200-lb. man with curly red hair, he is a vegetarian and a pacifist; in World War II he filed as a conscientious objector. "For a pacifist,'' he says...
Five years ago, despite his fast-growing fortune, Lubin realized that he was still financially vulnerable. ''If anything happened to me, my whole estate was my business," he recalls. So he merged Sara Lee into Consolidated Foods, the food-processing, wholesaling, and retailing Goliath being assembled by Canadian-born Entrepreneur Nathan Cummings, 65. Cummings paid Lubin 170,000 shares of Consolidated stock-then worth nearly $3,000,000-and was shrewd enough to let the master baker continue to run his own shop...
...Saturday afternoon, a talk by the mayor of Toronto provided a refreshing change from serious disussion and campus touring. The highlight of his talk was a bit of Canadian-American history: "In the War of 1812, the Scotch- Canadian soldiers marched down to Washington with their kilts, skirts, and other implements of war. They ate lunch at the President's Restaurant, and then, burnt it down. It was rebuilt and painted white, so Canada deserves credit for the White House...
...Canadian desire to break away from U.S. economic, political, and cultural control was summarized by the Dean of Trinity College when he said, "The American thanks God he is an American; the Canadian thanks...