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...investment in Canada has indeed grown fast-from $5 billion to an estimated $7.2 billion since 1945-but the overall Canadian economy has grown faster. While Americans took the risk of financing such spectacular enterprises as the Alberta oil boom, Canadians were investing at an even faster clip in bonds, plant expansions, and other less dramatic developments of. the national economy. Result: the proportion of U.S. ownership is shrinking, not growing. The Canadian economy is freer of foreign control now than at any time in the country's history...
...fair election. His man was soundly beaten. This was annoying, but there was nothing to do but graciously turn the presidency over to the winner, his old colleague Grau San Martin, and get out. Besides, staying in Havana at the time would have been asking for a Tommy-gun clip in the back...
...John Raitt sings handsomely, but Ralph Blane's tunes seldom seem hummablel without also seeming familiar. There are nice George Jenkins sets and Miles White costumes, and there is at least one thoroughly gay dance number. If wishes were horses, the show might go at a fast enough clip to be fun; as it is, it just ambles from one mild scene to another...
...libel suits. U.S.A. Confidential may do even better. It is a city-by-city shotgun blast at the whole country, with special treatment for Chicago ("captive to the mobsters and political thieves"), Los Angeles ("a hokum-happy haven for psychopaths and confidence workers"), Milwaukee ("loaded with deadfalls, joints, clip-dives") and Galveston ("America's liveliest, naughtiest, least-inhibited city"). It is also an outstanding collection of inaccuracies, big & small...
...beginning of the season and sticks with them afterwards. Despite the poor playing of Manning at the first of the year, the coach kept him in the lineup until he finally came through. Bulger and Sacks also started slowly, while Perry and Shaw were scoring at a 12-point clip early in the season. The latter two slowed down halfway through the schedule, however, and Bulger and Sacks began to lead the team in scoring in the last few games...