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Diefenbaker's legislative program was shaped to offer something for everyone-and nothing, so the Tories hoped, to unify the opposition to the point of making common cause. Mainly, his proposals sought to attack the chronic economic ills that last June forced Ottawa to impose a belt-tightening austerity program to ease Canada's imbalance of international payments. The Tories promised to balance the budget (after five straight deficits), to create 1,000,000 new jobs in the next five years, and to set up a brain-trusting National Economic Development Board to plan economic growth...
...Independent ultimately commanded a paid audience of 6,000 spread over 30 states, but it went virtually adless for years at a stretch, fought a losing lifelong battle against financial failure. In 1937, after Editor Saunders tried unsuccessfully to convert the Independent to a daily, the paper died of chronic malnutrition. Three years later, without a cause to fight or a crook to cuss, its proprietor followed it to the grave...
...lumbar lordosis [curvature of the lower spine]. In this position the fetus lies more parallel to the maternal spine and the abdominal muscles are less stretched." By contrast, "the married mother carries her pride before her like a banner, and drags behind her a crippling backache which often becomes chronic...
...class," an expanding tier that reaches from skilled workers to professional and managerial classes. It is this segment of society that has been hardest hit by the Conservative government's white-collar wage restraints-the "pay pause"-while staunchly resisting the Labor Party's archaic doctrines and chronic schisms. Though they have made dramatic gains in by-elections during the past year, the Liberals have been dismissed as a party of protest that is still in search of its real identity. Damned by the Socialists as "traitors to the working class," its leaders were decried by Tories...
Finally, 24 hours before the allotted deadline, the grinning Russians appeared at Sandkrug Bridge in a red-painted civilian bus with a bilious, pea-green roof. As the bus passed through without incident, the ruckus subsided. Far from solution, however, was the chronic indecision among the Allies, who on a relatively minor issue took two weeks to:1) agree that there was a problem, 2) decide to do something about...