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...although Prime Minister John Diefenbaker is given less chance to squeak through again, there seems to be no national consensus, or leadership, capable of effectively uniting the western farmers, Ontario factory workers, underemployed Nova Scotia coal miners, or Quebec's restless French Canadians, who seem more and more anxious to move into a separate world of their own. In Vancouver's Executive Club last week, a member complained: "Yesterday, for the first time in my life, my wife asked me how to vote in the election." He paused. "And you know something? For the first time...
...Tokyo Blues (The Horace Silver Quintet; Blue Note) is a fascinating marriage of Latin rhythms to Oriental melodies, presided over by the lingering blues sound of Silver's piano. Gene Taylor's bass solos are the best expression of this trans-Pacific bossa nova, and Junior Cook on tenor sax makes the trip seem pleasant and short...
...Bossa Nova Pelos Passaros (Riverside) casts Guitarist Charlie Byrd in with a mixture of accompanists who sometimes keep the pace and sometimes fall behind. Remarkably, either event serves to enhance Byrd's richly inventive style. He manages to make bossa nova sound almost like music...
...domus nova...
Died. Aleksandr Vasilievich Topchiev, 55, chemist credited with a major role in developing the liquid rocket fuels that enabled the Soviets to build their huge space vehicles; of a heart attack; in Moscow. Topchiev was a frequent visitor to the Pugwash conferences staged in Nova Scotia by Russophile Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, where the chemist enjoyed preaching that science is above national politics. But he had a pragmatic side: in 1958, a fellow Russian remarked that what he feared most was an accidental and irresponsible attack on Russia by the U.S., and Topchiev grinned back: "What I fear most is responsible...