Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Demands. To Canadian Choreographer Macdonald, 39, who came to Harkness last February after two years as artistic director of the Royal Swedish Ballet, such subject matter is thoroughly proper to dance. "Ballet today is exciting not just because of the dancers," he says, "but because it isn't afraid to leap onstage with a statement on any subject." Bearing out his thesis, Macdonald is now at work on a ballet dealing with violence and ritual killing as an ingrained social phenomenon now and in the past...
...church's most consistently reform-minded prelates, urbane, witty Cardinal Léger grew up in the Quebec village of St. Anicet, and was rector of the Canadian College in Rome before being elected Archbishop of Montreal in 1950. Pope Pius XII named him a cardinal three years later. At the Second Vatican Council, Léger spoke out in favor of a conciliar statement on religious freedom and for a change in church doctrine that would allow for the possibility of artificial birth control...
Marion is also working with a promising Canadian. Geza Tatrallyay, Marion said that Tatrallyay's previous training has been poor, but that he has the natural ability to become an excellent saber fencer...
...have snapped up some 20 other companies since 1959. The diversification began, says Seabrook, "because feeding your shareholders dividends is like feeding them opium. You have to keep giving larger doses. We didn't think we could face withdrawal symptoms." Accordingly, from gas and electricity production in the Canadian province of Alberta, International Utilities spread into ocean shipping, bus lines, demolition and salvage, steel fabrication, trucking and copper-silver mining. Revenues rose from $38 million in 1959 to $189.5 million last year; profits more than doubled to $15.7 million...
...marriage inside the family, subject to the anticipated blessing of stockholders, will make surviving International Utilities a major combine: $800 million assets, $480 million annual revenues, 35,000 employees in 40 U.S. states, six Canadian provinces and twelve foreign countries. Says Seabrook: "It gets us into the big time...