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Canada may not recognize Red China diplomatically, but it knows a good customer when it sees one. Last week Canada's Minister of Agriculture Alvin Hamilton announced the biggest one-shot grain sale in Canadian history: over the next 2½ years, Communist China will buy 233.4 million bu. of wheat and barley worth $362 million. The sale brought famine-suffering Red China from nowhere to second place (barely behind Britain) among Canada's grain customers...
...Pearson delicately questioned the propriety of offering better credit terms to Peking than to friendly nations, most Canadians seemed too busy counting the goodies to make any complaints. If all went well (as Communist deals do not), Canada's recession-hurt railways would move 142,000 carloads of grain to the seacoast and 750 ships would be needed to carry it across the Pacific...
...machine age, said Le Corbusier, the architect must take his cue from the engineer. "We have the American grain elevators and factories, the magnificent First Fruits of the new age. The American engineers overwhelm with their calculations our expiring architecture." He drew observations from everywhere: "The airplane shows us that a problem well stated finds its solution," but the "problem of the house has not been stated." Then, in his most famous dictum, he said that a house "is a machine for living in." The statement was not so inhuman as it sounded. Only architecture of "passion," he added, could...
...Russians last week said coldly that they had no grain to spare for China, did not even proffer gold or currency to help Peking buy it elsewhere. Instead, Moscow will send China this year some 500,000 tons of sugar. Sugar is one food commodity that China does not need, since it is already committed to take 1,000,000 tons of Castro's Cuban sugar...
While the players absorbed their bruises and Detroit and Chicago squared off for the Stanley Cup finals, the season's biggest winner turned out to be the family of the late Millionaire Chicago Grain Merchant James Norris, founder of hockey's richest dynasty. One son, Spectator-Sportsman James D. Norris (deposed front man for the hoodlum-hampered International Boxing Club), is co-owner of the Black Hawks, while another son, Bruce, and Daughter Marguerite are co-owners of the Red Wings. In the new, wide-open competition of professional hockey, the Norris clan has inherited a rewarding family...