Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MacKinnon's book, "How DO Children Learn to Read?" was published in 1959. He has also contributed articles to Canadian educational and research journals...
...visit his small farm, some twelve miles north of Saigon. Colonel Nam is not only a soldier in South Viet Nam's army; for the past seven years he has served as his nation's chief liaison officer with the International Control Commission, manned by a Canadian, an Indian and a Pole. The I.C.C. is supposed to "verify" the observance of the treaty terms of the 1954 Geneva Conference, which divided up French Indo-China...
...amount of detail might have staggered Lewis himself, who worshiped detail. To extract two droplets from the flood: the book reveals that the four cords of wood that Dr. Lewis asked his son to chop on Feb. 23, 1903, were really 4¼ cords, and that on a Canadian trip in 1924 Lewis passed through Goose Lake, Snake Lake, Trout Lake, Clam Lake and Lac la Ronge. Research is the opium of the biographers; when the fit is on them, any fact, no matter how small, must be included just because it is available...
...Mark (Continental). Pale from jail, a young Canadian accountant takes a job in a small city in the British Midlands. What was his crime? The movie makers let the moviegoer wonder, and while he wonders they invite him to like the young man. He is serious, decent, good at his job, but obviously afraid of something-something in himself? He reports to his parole officer, the psychiatrist (Rod Steiger) who treated him for three years in prison. As they talk, the past cracks open like a troubled tomb and horribly yields up its specters...
...beginning to realize that price stability is needed for the U.S. to compete with foreign producers, whose steadily increasing efficiency is being honed by newer machinery and by the success of regional trading arrangements, such as Europe's Common Market (see THE WORLD). Competition from European producers forced Canadian aluminum makers to cut their prices, and that, in turn, led to last fortnight's reductions by Aluminum Corp. of America and last week's cuts by Reynolds Metals Co. Besides being contagious from country to country, price reductions also spread from industry to industry inside...