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Flinty old John Diefenbaker, 71, likes to parry any suggestion that he should step down as leader of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party with a Churchillian thrust: "I'm not going till the pub closes." Last week, as the party gathered in Ottawa's Chateau Laurier for its regular convention, Tory dissidents were trying their best to close...
...vote of confidence. His style was undoubtedly cramped by the fact that his former Transport Minister, George Hees, a gregarious Torontonian who at first indignantly disclaimed any acquaintance with the blonde, now conceded that he might have lunched with her at Ottawa's Château Laurier after all. In any case, he added emphatically, what they discussed was no affair of state...
...imports more expensive, but would cut the standard of living. Second choice is some form of economic integration with the U.S. That would probably involve the reciprocal reduction or elimination of duties (a reciprocity treaty was approved by Congress in 1911, but the government of Premier Sir Wilfrid Laurier went to the Canadian electorate asking support and was defeated). But that would erode Canada's economic sovereignty, which many Canadians consider already sufficiently imperiled...
Died. Eva Gauthier, 73, concert mezzo-soprano, niece of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canada's first French-Canadian Prime Minister; in Manhattan...
Shaw's masterful satire on social distinctions and middle-class morality enjoyed a stunning production under the direction of Laurier Lister...