Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before Prime Minister John Diefenbaker was elected in 1958 with the largest parliamentary majority in Canadian history, Canadian election campaigns were chastely confined to a few tight months. But the race toward the 1962 election is already lengthening to the proportions of U.S. presidential campaign. Last week Diefenbaker and his rival party leaders were all out on the hustings, for all the world as if they expected an election while he snow flies...
...down on the chart with 12%, but making headway: ex-Saskatchewan Premier T. C. Douglas' New Democratic Party. It was formed last summer, on the rough model of Britain's Labor Party, by a marriage between the old socialist CCF Party and the 1,150,000-member Canadian Labor Congress...
...three party leaders have been more concerned to cultivate grass roots than to shape ringing national issues. In the wheat-growing West, Prairie Lawyer Diefenbaker has made hay by swinging a $362 million grain sale to hard-pressed Red China. By devaluating the Canadian dollar last June, the Tory government has helped spur exports 4.8% and shave Canada's deficit-of-payment imbalance. Unemployment has dropped to 318,000 (4.9% of the labor force). But on the debit side, Diefenbaker has failed to show how his government intends to meet the new challenge of world trade-particularly that posed...
...cold, snowy mountains of Montana, just 30 miles south of the Canadian border, a weary Indian leader of the Nez Percé tribe slowly rode up a hill where U.S. cavalry soldiers waited. Dismounting, Chief Joseph handed Colonel Nelson Miles his rifle and spoke: "I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed . . . The old men are all dead . . . The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food; I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find...
...Instead, he prefers to stand among the strings, his head bowed, a faint smile on his face, indicating by an occasional gesture of his hand that the credit belongs to the men of his orchestra. The applause has thundered almost continuously for the Philharmonic during the four-week U.S.-Canadian tour that ends this week, and few who recall the Philharmonic's visit to the U.S. six years ago are deceived by Von Karajan's modesty: to him clearly belongs the credit for putting the Berlin Philharmonic once again among the world's finest symphony orchestras...