Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time for a Change. The Union Nationale had plainly been too long in office. It had come to power back in 1936, when the demagogic Duplessis. playing skillfully on Depression issues and the longstanding French Canadian fears of being dominated by English Canada, won a smashing victory over a Liberal regime that had become corrupt. Except for the war years 1939 to 1944, Duplessis ruled Quebec thereafter with an iron hand and a corrupt machine. Cynical and dictatorial, Le Chef rewarded the voting faithful with bridges and roads, fought labor with savage laws and police brutality, kept Quebec...
This is more accurate than any other navigation system, and the Navy believes that Transit is capable of doing even better. Tucked into last week's Transit satellite was a Canadian "guest" instrument for studying background cosmic noise, and the satellite was allowed to spin for its convenience. When the spin is stopped by releasing small weights, the accuracy of navigation by means of Transit is expected to improve...
...compound, which was conveniently across the street from the Diet, Campbell had a bird's-eye view of the major fighting-when not ducking flying rocks and spurting fire hoses. Working near by in a sector where empty soda bottles were the demonstrators' weapons, Correspondent Iwama, a Canadian-Japanese, dodged the sailing glassware but absorbed an eye-smarting dose of tear gas when the police retaliated...
...Colorado highlands in the early 19005, the musical is a reminiscent farce, a kind of Die Rockymaus telling Tales of the Boulder Woods. It actually owes most to Friml's Rose Marie, whose Royal Canadian Mounties are now red-jacketed U.S. Forest Rangers. Little Mary enters carrying flowers in one hand, a watering can in the other, and stainless steel morals in her breast. She loves the No. i Forest Ranger, a strapping fellow, tall as a sequoia and equally intelligent. Wild improbabilities follow one another in woolly sequences; the skillfully imitative melodies by Rick Besoyan (who also wrote...
...when the dollars reach parity, Canadian banks may well forget about their coin discount. No one wanted to scare away the visitors, who spent about $350 million in Canada last year. Said one broad-minded British Columbia vending-machine operator: "All I want is coins...