Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With stirring words about national unity, Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson last May proudly proposed a new national flag for Canada-three red maple leaves on a white ground bracketed in blue. He wanted it to replace the old Red Ensign, envisioned it as a bright symbol of Canada's independent nationhood. Last week Pearson finally had to admit defeat. He gave up trying to push his flag through a stalemated Parliament and dumped the whole thing in the lap of a 15-man interparty committee, which now has six weeks to find a brand-new design...
...mouth of the eagle is a ferret, and in the mouth of the ferret is a stoat, and in the mouth of the stoat is a shrew, and in the mouth of the shrew is a marble, and on the outside of the marble is an American flag, for example, and in each one of the 48 stars of the flag-it's an old marble-is a map of a different district of Persia in the 14th century with a little symbol showing where is produced the oil, the wine, the camel dung, and so forth...
...only 21 private yards and eleven Navy yards; the private operators have orders for fewer than 50 merchant ships a year. Meanwhile, world-leading Japan is working on orders for more than 200 merchant ships, and Britain, Sweden and Germany have more than 100 each. Not a single foreign-flag ship is being built in the U.S.; the U.S.'s 15 subsidized lines place their orders at home only because the Government obliges them...
...colonial service and was Britain's last Governor General in Cyprus before independence. In this sprightly autobiography, which combines exploits worthy of James Bond with a scholar's critical look at current history, Foot draws some important lessons from Britain's race to haul down the flag...
Almost every country in the intensely nationalistic Arab world boasts a government-owned and subsidized airline, which proudly carries the flag but not enough of anything else to pay its way. An exception is tiny Lebanon (pop. 1,500,000), whose air travelers - and its pride - are well served by the Beirut-based, privately owned Middle East Air lines. Only a puddle-jumping outfit with a few aging DC-3s barely a decade ago, Middle East is now the world's 16th largest line-and the only profit-making airline in the Arab world. Last week it reported record...