Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conservative Tumble. Tory Diefenbaker, who is never more at home than when he is far from Ottawa campaigning, invited the early pace. He has had little choice. As unemployment in Canada rose last winter to its highest since the Depresion '30s (leaving 11.3% of the labor force without jobs), the Tories' political stock sharply tumbled; though the economy has since taken a turn for the better, in train with the U.S. recovery, Diefenbaker's fortunes have clearly failed to rebound...
Syrian in derivation and Canadian by birth, Paul Anka was raised in Ottawa, where his father ran a restaurant called The Locanda. At twelve, Paul organized his own trio, at 14 he sold his first song-to a small record company in Los Angeles. Blau Wildebeeste Fontaine sold a mere 3,000 copies, disappointing the ambitious youth, who felt that the world was passing him by. But then came the climax of a lifetime. "It was in the spring of my fifteenth year," he recalls solemnly. In stirring tribute to an older woman (she was pushing 18), he wrote Diana...
When Russian Cipher Clerk Igor Gouzenko defected from the Soviet embassy in Ottawa in 1945 with documents exposing a Soviet spy ring, he had considerable trouble finding anyone in Ottawa to defect to. He called fruitlessly at the Justice Minister's office, vainly told his story to the Ottawa Journal, was finally taken in tow by the Ottawa police only after embassy goons broke into his apartment. Last week, in a sadly wiser world, Dr. Mikhail Antonovich Klotchko, 59, a leading Soviet inorganic chemist, in Canada to attend the 18th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Chemistry...
Billeted in Ottawa's Lord Elgin Hotel with a fellow Soviet delegate, Klotchko waited until his roommate was asleep, collected only his razor and toothbrush, and slipped out into the deserted streets. Klotchko quickly found himself talking to the Mounties. By 8:30 in the morning, Klotchko's appeal for political asylum was on Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's desk, and by 9:30 the Cabinet met to approve...
Flying on to Canada, the weary Sandys got a brusque reception. He was flown from Montreal to Ottawa in a creaking old DC-3, while a Nigerian trade mission arriving the same day was assigned a plush government Viscount. At the bargaining table, the Canadians demanded not only assurances of protection for their exports to Britain ( which constitute only 20% of their sales abroad), but also that Britain would call a Commonwealth Prime Ministers' meeting before opening talks with the Six. Sandys had no authority to agree to either (and Macmillan, who will not even let the Commons debate...