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...next few years will remain largely dependent on its national resources-and, as other countries have learned, metals and minerals can quickly become as cheap as sand. Al ready some gloomy Canadians say that sales of forest products are falling off. The deep divisions between the French and the English, though less troublesome, are hardly closed. And Canada is still sometimes hampered by a provincial outlook on the world. In one sense, Canada is international-minded: there has been no U.N. peace-keeping mission in the past decade that has not prominently included Canadian troops. Yet Canada has been able...
...Vancouver, an alpine cable car whisks diners to a restaurant 3,700 ft. up the side of Grouse Mountain, overlooking the lights of the busiest harbor on the entire West Coast and a forest of apartment towers on English Bay that give the city the look of a northern Rio. Downtown, the old waterfront is getting a face lift, and the commercial center a cluster of towers, one of which would be ideal for the Bank of British Columbia that Bennett promises...
Current & Clear. Random House concedes that Webster's Third contains more words (it has 450,000 of the roughly half-million in the English language). Between parade and paradise, for example, the new dictionary omits such Webster's words-mostly medicalese-as para-dental, paradentitis, paraden-tium, paradentosis, parader-mal, paradesmose, paradiazine. Cerf argues that such entries are "words no one would ever use or has ever heard...
...18th century and Noah Webster of the 19th, Random House will be the best of the 20th. Then Cerf, who helps run Random House between stints on What's My Line?, held up the evidence: the new 2,059-page, 260,000-word Random House Dictionary of the English Language. It took seven years to compile, cost $3,000,000, and at a $25 sales price, says Cerf, it is "the workingman's dictionary...
...book is obviously aimed at a broader market than the one now domnated by the five-year-old Webster's Third New Interna tional Dictionary, which sells for $47.50, the 13-volume Oxford English Dictionary, which was last updated in 1933 and costs $300, and the $47.50 Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language, mainly unchanged since 1913. Random House has a bigger, cleaner type face, includes names of notable places and people in its regular alphabetical word list, throws in such usable extras as a 64-page world atlas and a list of major dates. Most...