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Looser Reins. On the eve of its 100th birthday, Canada is surging with unprecedented prosperity-a prosperity that its American next-door neighbor is scarcely aware of. That ignorance is doubly ironic since it is largely because of U.S. capital investment-$8 billion in the past decade-that the Canadian boom was launched. Much of that ignorance will be dissipated during 1967, Canada's centennial year, when Americans in considerable numbers will head north of the border to visit Expo 67, the Canadian world's fair in Montreal. Just how considerable is far from clear. Expo has counted...
...Done Something Bad." The next night, after making the rounds of Skid Row bars, Speck holed up in a 90?-a-night flophouse on the West Side's Madison Street under the name of B. Brian. Around 11 o'clock, he shouted to his next-door neighbor: "You got to come and see me. I done something bad." The neighbor replied: "You go to hell." Fellow occupants heard Speck stumbling about and peered at him. Said one: "Hey! This guy's bleeding to death." Sprawled on a scabrous mattress in the 5 x 9-ft. cubicle, Speck...
...Social Democrats become Premiers. The policies were well founded. In 1948, the last time that Communists were in the Cabinet, they tried to turn Finland into a Soviet satellite. As for the Social Democrats, the Russians developed a special loathing for them in the mid-50s and, as next-door neighbors, were able to bully the Finns into keeping them out of power. But last week, as a new four-party coalition government formally took office, Finland's two basic policies were completely reversed. For the first time in 18 years, Communists were included in the Cabinet...
...next-door Yugoslavia...
Since his Night Light Show doesn't begin until 11:30 (it lasts until 6 a.m.), we talked over a plate of pancakes in the next-door Howard Johnson's. He is enthusiastic about everything--his work, rock 'n' roll, WBZ, his audience -- and with absolute sincerity. I didn't see him broadcasting, but it is impossible to imagine him performing on the air. His style can be characterized only by a total lack of style. "There's a close personal relationship between my radio and myself. If a guy starts putting me on, he's finished. I just...