Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Canon Lionel Groulx, 89, Roman Catholic priest and early force behind French Canadian nationalism, a longtime (1915 to 1948) history professor at the University of Montreal who in lectures, countless articles and 30 books preached the revival of French Canadian civilization "contaminated by the Protestant and Saxon atmosphere," and advocated a Canada composed of virtually autonomous states; of a cardiac arrest; in Vaudreuil...
...virtual demise of tariffs as an important obstacle to trade. On thousands of manufactured goods-including autos, machinery, ceramics, cameras and hats-most industrial countries agreed to slash their tariffs by the full 50% that Kennedy originally sought. As a result, the average tariff wall around U.S., British and Canadian imports will fall from today's 18% to about 10%. Common Market levies will shrink by one-third from their present 13.2%, and those imposed by such countries as Switzerland and Sweden will drop from 8% to the merely nuisance level...
...ALUMINUM. Despite U.S., Canadian and Scandinavian pressure, the Common Market, at French insistence, refused to cut its 9% aluminum duty; but the EEC agreed to allow the import of 130,000 tons a year of the metal at a 5% rate...
Living in Detroit, mere minutes away from Windsor, Ont., I have often been guilty of considering Canada just a "sixty-cent bridge toll." Being of French-Canadian descent, I thank you for awakening in me an awareness and an appreciation of my Canadian heritage...
Legros, who spends his time between a Paris apartment, a New York hotel suite (he briefly operated a Manhattan gallery), and various hideaways, has so far insisted that he made innocent mis takes. But Lessard is a French Canadian, and Legros is a naturalized U.S. citizen of French extraction; this description tallies with the two men from whom Meadows bought most of his paintings. "They were charming-real artists, the biggest con men ever," says Meadows wryly. But he is not taking the A.D.A.A.'s judgment as final. While another French dealer, who sold Meadows seven fakes...