Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have so frightened the South African government by your coyer story that they cannot make up their minds whether or not to let us read it. The censorship board will decide in three weeks, we are told. Though I have not been able to read the article, as a Canadian priest serving a "colored" community, I can affirm that apartheid is not only a delusion. It is a monstrous evil-blasphemous, antiChristian, immoral, inhuman and unjust. (THE REV.) R. L. W. RITCHIE Bloemfontein, South Africa...
...Large as Rhode Island. So far, the fires have devastated more than 650,000 acres of woods and tundra-an area roughly as large as Rhode Island. One fire jumped the Taylor Highway near the Canadian border, making the road impassable at times; others raged along the Alaska Highway. Around Fairbanks, smoke from the Salcha River fire 45 miles away became so dense that visibility was reduced to half a mile. The mining town of Chicken on the Taylor
...productivity rose by 21%, West Germany's 29%, Italy's 40%-and Britain's only 18%. For each worker needed to produce a ton of steel in the U.S., three are needed in Britain. In manufacturing, it takes 2.52 Britons to equal the output of one Canadian, 1.89 to equal a Swede's. Yet hourly earnings in British industry grew by 33% in 1960-65-plus another 7% in manufacturing during the first three months of 1966. "More people in Britain pushed up their earnings more steeply for less work than any time since 1960," said...
...Schenley Industries, Inc. named an able, amiable Canadian, John Mackie, 55, as president, succeeding Lewis S. Rosenstiel, 75, who retains his position as chairman and chief executive officer. Mackie moves to New York with professional background as an accountant who became chairman of Schenley's profitable British subsidiary, Seager-Evans. He considers his appointment as the non-American president of "an extremely American company" to be "amazing and wonderful. I can think of no precedent." But he has few illusions about the amount of control he will take over from Rosenstiel. Says he: "I have a tremendous amount...
...federal judge last week cleared one of the five members of the Harvard Corporation of charges that he had abused privileged information of rich, Canadian ore deposit...