Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Canada may not recognize Red China diplomatically, but it knows a good customer when it sees one. Last week Canada's Minister of Agriculture Alvin Hamilton announced the biggest one-shot grain sale in Canadian history: over the next 2½ years, Communist China will buy 233.4 million bu. of wheat and barley worth $362 million. The sale brought famine-suffering Red China from nowhere to second place (barely behind Britain) among Canada's grain customers...
Died. Harry Falconer McLean, 78, boisterous, eccentric Canadian construction king, the fabled "Mr. X" who once dumped $5,000 in silver and small bills out of his hotel window, handed out $100 bills to soldiers and chambermaids, $1,000 and $2,000 checks to bellhops and cabbies because "I like to see people happy," and was swamped with 27,000 marriage proposals (he ignored them all, was married twice, to other women); of a stroke; in Merrickville, Ont. A 6-ft., 200-lb. bear of a man whose tastes ran to torpedo-sized cigars, buffalo-skin coats and liquor...
...Saturday, against Princeton, a non-league encounter. On the following Wednesday, May 10, the Crimson meets MIT. The team's schedule after the depends upon how well they do in those two games. Hopes of winning the league have been ended, but the team may play a Boston or Canadian team "just for fun" as one squad member said...
Died. Victor Sifton, 64, Canadian editor and publisher who controlled the country's second biggest newspaper empire, including the Winnipeg Free Press and the Ottawa Journal, an enthusiastic horseman, World War I battalion commander in the Fourth Canadian Mounted Rifles and University of Manitoba chancellor; of a heart attack; in Winnipeg...
Thurs., April 27 Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Former World Champion Dick Button leads U.S. and Canadian skating stars in a tribute to 18 U.S. skaters who died in the Feb. 15 Brussels air crash...