Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...America's cities, a burning issue in the nation today, seems likely to persist as a major theme through the 1968 presidential elections. With that thought in mind, Lyndon Johnson last week flew to Kansas City, Mo., to present the forgathered police chiefs of 350 U.S. and Canadian cities with his own program and prescriptions for coping with urban anarchy. To judge by the reception accorded him at the 74th annual convention of the International Association of Police Chiefs (see THE LAW), the President and the professionals are on the same wave length...
...political leader appeared last week on the Canadian national scene...
Charles de Gaulle's inflammatory cries of "Long live free Quebec!" during his foreshortened Canadian tour in July drew unanimous boos on both sides of the Atlantic. So naturally, the General ordered a "considerable increase" in French aid to Quebec. It would not take much to make any increase considerable, since the most visible signs of French aid so far have been an exchange of some 60 schoolteachers and a technical assist in building Montreal's rubber-tired subway. What France desires, said De Gaulle, is "to help the French of Canada to maintain and develop their personality...
Despite such seeming largesse, the industry's offer could hardly be taken seriously except as an initial bargaining position. Almost completely ignored were such key Reuther demands as a guaranteed annual wage and parity between U.S. and Canadian workers. And the union leaders thought that the automakers were downright insulting in their suggestion to put a ceiling on U.A.W.'s cherished cost-of-living escalator clause...
...this great interest in sailing craft, I wish to point out an omission in your story that would lead many people to considerable trouble, grief and expense. I refer to your mention of the trim-tab on Intrepid's keel. I am the holder of U.S. and Canadian patents which cover this particular feature of a keel flap and a separate rudder. For the purposes of the 12-meter boats involved in this year's series, no restrictions were placed upon use of the feature. Nevertheless, it is not in the public domain, and its future application remains...