Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prepare the material for a traveling exhibition of TIME'S cover art. The show, containing 75 examples of portraiture, sculpture and caricature, opened in Tulsa's Philbrook Art Center last week. During the next 15 months it will travel to at least nine other U.S. and Canadian cities...
ISABEL. Another tale of a terrified young lady, this Canadian-made film stars Geneviève Bujold as a rapidly maturing adolescent haunted by the all-too-real ghosts of her past...
...there was Louis Slotin, a morose Canadian with an apparent death wish, who conducted tests of critical assemblies by poking curved segments of uranium or plutonium together with a screwdriver while eying his Geiger counter and neutron monitor. One day in 1946, nudging segments of a Bikini test bomb a little too close, he suddenly saw a blue ionization glow in the room-the sign of a dangerously radioactive reaction. He threw his body over the segments until everyone else in the room could hurry out. Although the others lived, Slotin achieved his death wish. He died in agony nine...
Died. Daniel Johnson, 53, Premier of Quebec since 1966; of a heart attack. Half Irish by birth and French Canadian by choice, Johnson studied for the priesthood but turned to politics, becoming a protege of the late autocratic Premier Maurice Duplessis. Johnson maneuvered a political tightrope on the issue of separatism for French-speaking Quebec by calling for national unity to calm down extremists, yet urging more autonomy for the province. He had planned to go to France later this month, and Charles de Gaulle intended to receive him as a full-fledged head of state...
McNamara persuaded former Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson to head an independent panel of "wise men" who will consider bank activities for the next 30 years. McNamara hopes the Pearson group will be as ambitious for the World Bank as he himself is. "All power is given us to be used," he told his governors this week, "not to be wrapped in a napkin against risk...