Word: ottawa
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John Mecklin, TIME'S Ottawa bureau chief, turned in 22,000 words of firsthand reporting for our Sept. 12 cover story on Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. He had two long sessions with St. Laurent (the most time the Prime Minister has given to any publication since taking office), another with ex-Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, who fed him tea, toast, and honey made by his own bees...
...British and U.S. companies were coming to Quebec to develop the province's timber, mineral and hydroelectric resources, and the biggest of them were St. Laurent's clients. He was regularly on the go (sometimes at a fee of $200 a day) pleading cases before the Supreme Court in Ottawa and the Privy Council in London. He collected company directorates, became one of the few French Canadians to sit on the board 9f directors of the Bank of Montreal...
...smacked the family car into the gateposts. At the wheel, he sat up so ramrod-straight that the children often giggled. Thereupon he would stop the car and refuse to go on until the laughing stopped. He still does not drive a car; when he wants to ride in Ottawa, he calls a taxi...
Today, whenever he can get away from Ottawa, St. Laurent makes a beeline for Quebec and the family house in the Grande Allée. It gives him a chance to surround himself with his family, of whom he never tires. (On a New Brunswick holiday this summer, the St. Laurent party totaled 27 ?sons, daughters, in-laws and grandchildren.) In Quebec St. Laurent also finds time for golf (over 100), his only sport except flyfishing. At the Royal Quebec Golf Club one day this summer, St. Laurent went out without a caddy. Said one of the pros...
...same kind of courage was shown six months later when Igor Gouzenko, a Russian cipher clerk, fled from the Soviet embassy in Ottawa with evidence of a Communist spy ring in Canada. Prime Minister King, who was trying to stay neutral in the cold war, dreaded the Russians' reaction to a spy scandal. St. Laurent, who had refused to listen to Gouzenko when he first came to his office with the spy data, saw it differently. He ordered 14 suspects locked up and held incommunicado while a secretly appointed Royal Commission dug up the facts. St. Laurent's political opponents...