Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family, friends and my home through Anglo-American air raids, which almost destroyed my home town. These raids on Hamburg and other German cities, terrifying and hate-inspiring as they were at the time, played a decisive role in destroying Hitler's totalitarianism. Now I am a Canadian citizen. I am firmly convinced that my present religious and political freedom are owed directly to American participation in World War II. I do not envy President Johnson's position as far as the war in Viet Nam is concerned, but I understand and support his decisions...
When he filled out the application forms for U.S. citizenship in 1963, Canadian-born Clive M. Boutilier, 32, reported that he had once been arrested for a homosexual act, but the charges were dismissed. Pressed for more details, the Manhattan building-maintenance man, who had been living in the U.S. for eight years, revealed his assorted relations with both sexes since the age of 14. As a result, Boutilier was ordered deported. Reason: the 1952 Immigration Act bars any alien with a "psychopathic personality...
Died. General Andrew G. L. McNaughton, 79, Canada's foremost soldier, respected scientist and diplomat; of a heart attack; in Montebello, Que. McNaughton's intense belief in independent Canadian nationhood overlaid everything he did, whether serving as president of his country's National Research Council (1935-39), or sitting as a member of the Atomic Energy Commission (1946). But Canadians know him best as the World War II commander of Canadian troops in Europe, who bitterly disputed Allied plans to commit his men piecemeal, arguing that his divisions should form a single force "pointed at the heart...
...more dangerous step in the American policy of escalation" and pledging continued aid to North Viet Nam. While obviously suffering under the new American blows (see THE WORLD), Hanoi in its public statements displayed no hint of any less determination than Washington. Ho Chi Minh recently told a visiting Canadian diplomat that the war would not be a protracted one, contending: "We won't have to wait too long." His reasoning: the U.S. elections in November will produce so much opposition to Lyndon Johnson's Viet Nam policies that the President will have to switch course...
...wrapped a page of Pascagoula news around the Mobile papers and started selling them in Pascagoula. The new edition, called the Mississippi Press Register, lost nearly $750,000, but the Chronicle lost heavily too. Chronicle President Ralph Nicholson decided to sell out-but not to the immediate competition. Canadian-born Publisher Lord Thomson bought the paper, then turned around and sold it to the Mobile papers for a hefty...