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Exports last year gained 7½% (to a record $5.8 billion), and by holding down imports, Canada enjoyed its first merchandise trade surplus since 1956. Trade and Commerce Minister George Hees, who likes to wear gold cufflinks initialed G.O.Y.B.S.A.S. (meaning "Get Off Your Back Side And Sell"), sent his tradesmen...
Since ABC discovered that stupendous profits can be made through the production of stupendous mediocrity, the other two networks have conformed nicely, performing the difficult feat of lowering their own standards. From precooked oatmeal to precast bullets, everyone is importing packaged pap from Hollywood by the case. But above all...
"I Know .You." As the delegates met for a leisurely dinner in the Shera-ton-Carlton Hotel, Host Rusk suddenly jabbed a finger in the direction of Canadian Trade and Commerce Minister George Hees. "I know you," he told Hees.
"You're the fellow who made my life miserable in that lacrosse game." Hees, who studied at Britain's Cambridge, and Rusk, a former Rhodes scholar, then lapsed into reminiscing about the afternoon in 1934 when they played against each other. Hees even recalled the score -Cambridge defeated...
With Trade and Commerce Minister George Hees's brisk assurance to the Cubans that Canada "couldn't do business with better businessmen anywhere" still ringing in their ears, Canadian businessmen last week were playing host to two more trade missions out of far leftfield.