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...through Canada's eight-week election campaign, Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and Liberal Leader Lester Pearson were politicians in search of an issue. The crowds turned out in numbers, but the oratory sounded as if it were from a leftover LP record, and this time the campaigners were playing the dull side. In the final stage of the campaign, just when he seemed to be running out of things to say, John Diefenbaker decided that he had found his issue...
...That thump on the front porch this morning," said Phyllis Wudi, a Milwaukee secretary, "was the nicest sound I've heard for eight weeks." The thump was the Milwaukee Sentinel, appearing again after an eight-week American Newspaper Guild strike. But in reality, Hearst's ailing old Sentinel (circ. 192,167) was no more. During the strike it had been sold for $3.000,000 to its independent rival, the afternoon Journal (372,276)-which promptly rushed its new buy back into print, but dropped the Sunday edition...
...town tryouts go, it was way, way out. By coastal steamer, narrow-gauge railway and bus, Comedian Bert Lahr, 66, and a Broadway cast trekked up to Dawson City in the Yukon-4,700 miles from the Great White Way-for an eight-week run of Foxy, a Gold Rush version of Ben Jonson's Volpone. The musical comedy, timed to premiere with the beginning of Dawson City's Gold Rush Festival, launched the event with a splash. At the Palace Grand Theater, where Douglas Fairbanks Sr. once played to Klondike sourdoughs, British Comedienne Bea Lillie officially opened...
...member orchestra will give 26 formal concerts in nine Mexican cities during its eight-week tour, and will live with Mexican families in each cities, and give lecture-demonstrations in schools. Mexican soloists, guest conductors, and orchestras will participate in many of the concerts...
While introducing Ginsburg, Dean Monro said the University is discussing with the Peace Corps a plan to hold orientation seminars here during the winter. Under the plan, which now is "purely hypothetical," the University would conduct weekly seminars covering the same cultural, educational, and political problems taught during the eight-week orientation program here last summer...