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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during the Inquisition; others fled Genoa in the 1790s to escape the havoc of the Napoleonic Wars; many came from Malta to seek work in the British dockyards. Over the years, they have developed into a surprisingly homogeneous population of 25,000 people who are tidy, industrious and bilingual (English and Spanish...
Although Canada has had much entertainment lately - the glowing centennial of its independence, the excellent Montreal Expo, the amusing visit from Charles de Gaulle - its politics have been rather dreary. The Liberal government under Lester Pearson has gone quietly on its way, strengthening relations between French-and English-speaking Canada, expanding foreign trade, and boosting an economy that has been growing 6% a year...
...Diefenbaker won office in 1957 mainly on the strength of his flamboyant public charm. Partly because of his uncertain leadership -but also because of forces he could not possibly control - Canada's economy weakened and its politics became Balkanized, with East turning against West, French-speaking Quebec against English Canada, and many Canadians against the U.S. After the Conservative defeat in 1963, Diefenbaker proved no more adept as opposition leader, triggering endless party squabbles and offering only a free-swinging, scattershot opposition to the Liberal government...
...must cope with a virtual information blackout. Newsmen are not allowed to leave the capital, and every dispatch must be shown to the Foreign Ministry before it is sent. A.F.P. cables can take up to 20 hours to reach Paris, where the news agency translates and transmits them in English, Spanish, Portuguese and German as well as French. As a result U.S. announcements of bombings in North Viet Nam usually scoop A.F.P. coverage. The dispatches sometimes sound prejudiced, since they must pass Hanoi eyes, but they do provide on-the-spot, visual confirmation of the raids. In addition, they report...
...English is virtually without gender-it is, in fact, suspiciously without sex. Dr. Hartogs was educated in Germany, where a girl (das Mddchen) is neuter, spring (der Fruhling) is masculine, and a door (die Tiir) is feminine (apparently the doctor cannot bear to hear one slammed). As he sees it, a language in which only he and she are sexed must be up to no good. In English, what is the sex of a bicycle, an eggplant, a subway? None. And what does this engender? According to Dr. Hartogs and Hans Fantel, a "professional writer" who has tried to guide...