Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...helicopter, train, bus, car, steamship, fishing boat and afoot to get a color picture spread and a colorful story. For their special report, including six pages in color, see THE HEMISPHERE, CANADA: British Columbia at 100. Appropriately, this week marks an anniversary for TIME: the 15th year of our Canadian edition, which goes to 200,000 Canadian families. Observing this birthday, we have prepared a booklet, In Our Time, containing excerpts from significant Canadian stories that have appeared in TIME in the past 15 years. Anyone who would like a copy of this unique study of recent Canadian history...
...surging advance at the box office, but for the stage it is a shambling step backward. It tells of a young Hong Kong prostitute (France Nuyen) debauched at 13 by an uncle but in essence still fine and pure, and of an even finer and purer young Canadian painter (William Shatner) who, though achingly tempted, resists a loving, willing Suzie in scene after scene after scene. At last, when her baby is killed, he marries...
Nonwhisky liquors have also bounced up, nearly doubling their market share since 1949 to 23%. The reason again is mildness: odorless, light-bodied vodka has jumped from virtually nothing to 6% of liquor sales. Scotch and Canadian whiskies have sliced into U.S. distillers' markets until imports are 13% of total liquor sales...
Writers about the gold rush, one of history's maddest mass movements, have been almost as numerous as prospectors in the Klondike. But perhaps no one has told the story with the same fullness and readable authority as Canadian Journalist Pierre Berton in The Klondike Fever. Author Berton's credentials are convincing. His father staked a claim on Quigley Gulch in 1898, and while it produced only gravel, he stayed on and lived in fabled Dawson City for 40 years. Author Berton himself lived there until he was twelve, admits that it still "haunts my dreams...
News of the shift toward the U.S. came clear to Canadians last week, caused more of a stir than the R.C.A.F.'s similar decision (TIME, Oct. 6). Some critics of the new policy complained that Canada is becoming too dependent on the U.S. for military muscle. But there was really no alternative; the U.S. has what Canada need's. Said a Canadian colonel: "Canada will have an army again...