Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canada's booming uranium industry has leveled off sharply in the past month, in the wake of rumors out of Ottawa and Washington (which buys most of Canada's uranium) that the market might be approaching the saturation point and that the Canadian government was about to stop buying uranium. Last week Defense Production Minister C. D. Howe cleared the air with a statement of the government's uranium policy: ¶ Until March 31, 1962, Ottawa will buy all acceptable uranium concentrates, i.e., 10% U208, at a maximum price of $7.25 per Ib. for the uranium content...
...fashion for pitting psychiatry and religion against each other as though they were mutually exclusive took a beating on last week's Catholic Hour from a brilliant Roman Catholic convert who is also a distinguished psychiatrist: Karl Stern, author (The Pillar of Fire) and chief of psychiatry at Ottawa General Hospital. The conflict is not necessary or even real, said Dr. Stern, and the appearance of conflict is fostered by fallacies on both sides...
...series of hints that he would retire unless he felt a lot better soon. That prospect was more than agreeable to Mme. St. Laurent, who worried about her lawyer-husband's late entry into politics (at 59) and has never made any secret of her willingness to quit Ottawa for a quieter life at the family home in Quebec City...
During last summer's long holiday season, however, St. Laurent made an impressive comeback. He returned to Ottawa spry and refreshed, and led the government through the current parliamentary session without any serious recurrence of last year's fatigue. "He's as perky as he ever was," observed one government official. "He's enjoying his job too much to give it up." A top Liberal who asked him point-blank about his political plans last week reported afterward that St. Laurent said "definitely, with no ifs or buts [that he] will run in the next election...
Although Canadians have kept Liberal governments in power in Ottawa for 20 years. Canada is by no means a one-party country. In provincial elections held last week in Ontario. Canada's most populous province, the Progressive Conservative (Tory) government, led by Premier Leslie Miscampbell Frost, won a smashing victory and was returned to office for a fifth straight term. The Tories captured 83 seats in the 98-seat legislature, while the Liberals, even with the strong backing of their party's powerful administration in Ottawa, could win only...