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From the tone of last spring's election campaign, U.S. investors in Canada were led to believe that the Liberals' Lester Pearson would provide a milder, more benign business climate than Conservative John Diefenbaker. But last week, when Pearson's new government presented its first budget to Parliament, it became clear that while Diefenbaker only barked about "Canadianization" of industry, "Mike" Pearson was going to bite. Items...
...previous years, wheat farmers had voted on similar but milder plans; each time they said yes by at least the two-thirds majority required for approval. But the margins had steadily dwindled, and Freeman had long known he was in for a real fight this year. He and his sprawling Agriculture Department campaigned tirelessly, told farmers that their choice was between $1 wheat and $2 wheat. Freeman's major antagonist was the big American Farm Bureau Federation and its president, Charles Shuman. The Farm Bureau's slogan: "Freedom v. Freeman...
Limb from Limb. Since the Syrian coup was both swift and successful, Nasser's nerves and the Egyptian army were not put to the test. Israel alerted its border defenses but made no further move. On the surface, in fact, the Syrian affair was much milder and less bloody than most Arab revolts. In the past 15 years, the Middle East has been continually shaken like a kaleidoscope, constantly falling into new patterns. There have been two sizable wars and fully two dozen armed uprisings and rebellions. Premiers and princes have been torn limb from limb by street mobs...
...motion which the Council passed was much milder than the demands heard previously in the Council that the City seize the MTA yards by eminent domain to keep Harvard from getting them. Speaking in favor of his motion, Hayes cited legal opinion that such a seizure would be illegal...
Accordingly, the government is now also using a far milder de-oathing rite. In fact, it often is more like a civil;,service exam than something out of The'-Golden Bough. Along with a Kikuyu district officer, the de-oathing teams comprise several recorders, who write down confessions, and a court of five tribal elders. Those who come forward to renounce the L.F.A. are asked eleven questions ("When did you take the oath?" "Who are the leaders?"), then are fined an average of 5 or 10 shillings by the elders...