Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More important to the French than the arrest of the arms runners was the identification of the arms suppliers. The name of the ship was the Athos, a former Canadian minesweeper under Sudanese registry. Her captain produced two passports, one Greek, the other Costa Rican. Seven out of her crew of ten were unregistered and looked as if they might be Algerians. After lengthy interrogation of captain and crew, the French triumphantly announced that the Athos had been loaded in Alexandria by uniformed Egyptian soldiers. The French government asked the Egyptian ambassador for an explanation...
...price of money, like most other prices in the high-pressure Canadian economy, continued to creep upward last week. For the sixth time in 15 months, the Bank of Canada raised its rate on loans to chartered banks. The country's basic interest rate was increased from 3¼% to 3½%,* the highest ever charged by the government-owned central bank...
Only two months ago the Prime Minister's health seemed likely to become a critical issue in Canadian politics. Toward the close of the grueling, seven-month parliamentary session, St. Laurent seemed close to exhaustion. His political foes openly predicted that the Liberal chief would soon be forced to retire, and a few panicky members of his own party talked nervously of holding a snap election this autumn to cash in on St. Lau rent's potent vote-getting leadership before it was too late. But top Liberal strategists were more confident; all St. Laurent needed, they said...
...boosted the school's enrollment 65% (to 11,500) and launched a $60 million expansion program in the past ten years. Educator Smith has also traveled widely throughout Canada, winning countless friends with his genial ways and his thought-provoking speeches on almost every aspect of contemporary Canadian life (TIME, Oct. 6, 1952). He has been a champion of civil liberties, a critic of Anglophiles who would keep Canada more dependent on Britain ("They want us to ape the English in everything from accent to aristocracy"), and a staunch friend of the U.S. (he once accused Canada...
...this first novel, Canadian-born. 28-year-old Author Adele Wiseman, currently a social worker in Britain, grapples with darker mysteries - of a man's relationship with his son, of his duty to and faith in his God - than she has yet power to illuminate. For much of the book, Abraham strides forward with Old Testament credibility. But toward the novel's end, tragedy bows to contrivance which teeters on the brink of absurdity; the writing turns from archaic simplicity to perfervid pleading. Unfortunately for her purpose, the characters who seem most alive are the women : the silly...