Word: nova
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breathe, the water we drink and the land we till. Every infant born in America today has detectable quantities of DDT in his body." Possibly to get away from it all, Piccard announced plans to submerge himself in a four-to-six-week underwater "free drift" from Florida to Nova Scotia next summer...
...name is Robert Stanfield, he comes from Nova Scotia, he has a long, fine stone face clearly marked by thought, and he will be heard of a great deal in the years ahead...
Four-Time Winner. Bob Stanfield, 53, a lawyer by training, comes from a rich old Nova Scotia family that made its fortune in knitting mills; winter long Johns, one of its products, were known during the Yukon gold rush as "Stanfield's unshrinkables." An unassuming pragmatist, he took over Nova Scotia's Conservative leadership in 1947, when the party did not hold a single seat in the provincial legislature. Nine years later he came to power, and has since won three elections. When fellow party members suggested that he run for Diefenbaker's job, Stanfield at first...
...interested in empty decision making just to show I am decisive," he says. His policies will differ from the Liberal program mostly "in terms of priorities." He is a progressive who sees no "original sin" in government economic planning and built so elaborate a welfare program in Nova Scotia that he was called a Conservative socialist. At the same time, he wants Canada's growing welfare state to be administered in a more businesslike way. Like Pearson-and unlike Diefenbaker-Stanfield believes broadly in warmer relations with the U.S. and more foreign investment in Canada. With his accession...
...president of the Metropolitan Opera Association, which handles everything except the opera's artistic affairs; and Sally Brayley, 29, soloist in the Met's ballet troupe until last December; he for the third time, she for the second; in her home town, Prince's Lodge, Nova Scotia, on July 24, one month after he was divorced by onetime Actress (My Sister Eileen) Jo Ann Savers, 48, his wife of 26 years...