Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WARRENDALE. A magnificent Canadian documentary by Allan King that movingly depicts the troubled lives of a small group of emotionally disturbed children...
...saved $20,000; by the age of 23, his tobacco had made him a dollar millionaire. Then came the Depression, and with an eye for a bargain and a hankering for the sea (Odysseus was always his hero, Ithaca his spiritual homeland), Onassis began buying merchant ships. From Canadian National Railways, he purchased half a dozen vessels in 1930 at $20,000 apiece. Each had cost $2,000,000 to build ten years earlier. When World War II broke out, Onassis owned many of the precious tankers in Allied waters...
...fiery involvement, La Callas sometimes occupied a suite in Monte Carlo's L'Hermitage hotel, near Onassis' apartment and offices; a tunnel connected the two. Though Callas was most frequently photographed aboard the yacht, it had been Tina who inspired "Telis," as his friends call him,* to buy the Canadian frigate Stormont in 1954 and convert it to a yacht, which he named for his daughter Christina...
...standard list Murphy added the Humphrey postulates-no feasts in his room, "just cheddar cheese, saltine crackers, diet root beer, Canadian Club and soda, 'wine of the country,' usually ten bottles of beer." Most of all, Murphy dreaded the "dragon's tail effect"-that frightening phenomenon in which a mere twitch at the tail's base can be come a paroxysm by the time it reaches the tip. By lingering an hour over schedule in one place, the Humphrey cavalcade can make a shambles of a whole day's tight schedule...
...businessmen. The issue of conflict of interest is as old as business, yet it has never been quite so urgent or confusing. It was brought to a boil by the still continuing Texas Gulf Sulphur case, involving stock purchases by company officers who had confidential information of a Canadian mineral strike, and by last month's charge by the Securities and Exchange Commission that 14 executives and salesmen of Merrill Lynch had illegally fed "inside" information to mutual funds and other institutional investors. The two cases have inspired a run of stockholder suits and general jitters among corporate insiders...