Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Bryan Winslow Newkirk, 77, Canadian financier, a North Carolina-born wheeler-dealer who promoted Quebec copper and Saskatchewan oil into a network of 61 companies with assets of $30 million, all of which made him a big man in Canada but a fugitive to the U.S. Government for his refusal to pay an estimated $400,000 in taxes on his across-the-border stock operations; of a heart attack; in London, England. Said Newkirk: "They can go to hell. I'm a Canadian citizen, and they can't touch me." Nor could they...
...sudden order. (In fact, he had also paid his respects to Italian President Giuseppe Saragat.) Roving U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman popped up in Poland so unexpectedly that he nearly caught U.S. Ambassador John A. Gronouski out of town. Special Presidential Assistant McGeorge Bundy was sent to Ottawa to see Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson, while Under Secretary of State Thomas Mann slipped down Mexico way. To Africa went G. Mennen Williams, dune-hopping from Rabat to Tunis-and eventually 14 countries, seeing such Africans as Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta...
...international editions are all in English and virtually identical in editorial content (the Canada edition carries an additional four pages of Canadian news, written and edited by a staff based in Montreal). They are printed in six plants around the world. Their circulation gains (up 47% since 1956) have been coming largely from the economically advanced areas. For example, there is now one TIME reader for every 19 people in Canada, but only one for every 668 in Latin America...
...Gordon's replacement, Mitchell Sharp, former Minister of Trade and Commerce and the shrewd negotiator who in the last two years has sold $1.7 billion worth of wheat to Russia and Red China. To make sure it continues, Sharp will keep his hat as overseer of the Canadian Wheat Board...
...name that stands out is Jean Marchand, 47, who will head Pearson's proposed Ministry of Manpower, dealing with everything from citizenship and immigration to employment. An able Quebec labor leader and attractive vote getter, he is the first French Canadian in years to hold a Cabinet post with real economic power and is obviously a man in whom Pearson sees possibilities...