Word: manitoba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VINOD K. BANSAL, M.D. Winnipeg, Manitoba...
...press conference brusquely lumped Canada with Nigeria and Malaysia as federations in trouble, Trudeau shot back that the general was "not overly impressed with reality." Nor, apparently, with diplomatic good manners. Trudeau at the same time blistered the French government for sending a cultural emissary to French Canadians in Manitoba in an "underhanded and surreptitious" manner without so much as a by-your-leave from the Canadian government...
...Take Marylou Whitney, whose husband Sonny (Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney to you) was a principal backer of Pan American World Airways, Gone With the Wind and enough other ventures to qualify him as a one-man conglomerate. She has five children and five establishments in Lexington, Ky., Saratoga, Manhattan, Manitoba, Canada, and 100,000 acres of the Adirondacks. So Marylou and her two secretaries (one in New York and one in Kentucky) spend a lot of time in a welter of lists, files and details. She likes to dash off notes to the help about buying ham at less than...
...found his modest kitchen-equipment supply company digging itself out from orders coming from Tokyo to Manitoba, Liberia to Panama, from stores such as Macy's and Neiman-Marcus, from soldiers in Viet Nam, as well as newlyweds in Nebraska. Nearly 8,000 pans have now been sold, and three months later, orders are still coming in at six times the average of a year ago. And the busy Mr. Bridge is still marveling at the power of a footnote...
...RECORDS. An even farther-out commentary is The Incredible Shrinking God, a long-playing collection of "sermons" by Manitoba-born David Steinberg, 27, a rabbi's son who studied Hebrew literature before becoming a comedian with Chicago's Second City troupe. Not religious in a formal sense, Steinberg's comic oratory is a pop version of God-is-dead theology. Steinberg explains that he picked that title for the record because "the traditional God is becoming harder to find in modern society all the time...