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...cold, raw afternoon, but more than 500 well-wishers turned out at Ottawa's Rockcliffe Airport to see Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent take off last week on a round-the-world good-will tour. As the Prime Minister's limousine pulled up at the airstrip, they broke through the rope barriers in a rush of friendly enthusiasm. St. Laurent, politely doffing his black Homburg, plunged into the crowd, shaking hands and alternately bidding goodbye and au revoir as he worked his way toward the plane...
...Ottawa, a few hours later, Ike and Mamie stepped out onto a freshly whisked crimson carpet in Union Station and shook hands with the welcoming delegation, headed by Governor General Vincent Massey and Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent...
...What would be the reaction of Canadians," asked a Toronto Globe and Mail columnist last week, "if students at the University of Wisconsin draped themselves like the Ku Klux Klan, formed a procession and hanged and burned an effigy of Premier Leslie Frost. Prime Minister St. Laurent or George Drew...
...elected Prime Minister St. Laurent in the fifth straight victory...
Against the Liberal drive, spearheaded by St. Laurent's great personal popularity in French Canada, the opposition tried in vain to sell the idea: it's time for a change. Taking a cue from the election in the U.S. last year, Tory Leader George Drew did his best to create a Canadian counterpart of the Republican campaign...