Word: ottawa
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...Pearson, while head of Canada's Liberal Party, from ever winning a majority in Parliament. It also helped make his term as Prime Minister (from 1963 to 1968) one of the most boisterous and fractious in Canadian history. Yet even before he died last week of cancer in Ottawa, at the age of 75, "Mike" Pearson had acquired recognition and respect as an authentic Canadian statesman...
...lasting accomplishment was essentially a negative one-he kept Canada from splitting apart. He awoke his own party and English-speaking Canada to the imperative need to accommodate Quebec's so-called Quiet Revolution. He also invoked a diplomat's infinite flexibility to prevent a collision between Ottawa and French Canadian nationalists. In a rare moment of immodesty, Mike Pearson precisely summed up his own achievement: "It is not nation building. It is nation saving. It is not less than that...
...wife Margaret (who is 24), as well as two younger daughters. Stanfield's first wife was killed in an automobile crash in 1954; his second wife Mary is the daughter of a former justice of Nova Scotia. With the children scattered, the Stanfields have been living quietly in Ottawa at Stornoway, the official residence of Canada's Opposition Leader. His favorite pastime is gardening ("It's good for the soul"), but Stanfield also enjoys the theater. When he saw Hair in Toronto a couple of years ago, he jumped up on the stage...
Whether they were sufficiently entranced to re-elect him was in fact the major issue of the campaign, since he had acquired as many opponents as supporters during his four years in power. As TIME'S Ottawa Bureau Chief Lansing Lamont reported last week, Canadians "remember the sense of expectancy that Trudeau generated in 1968, but have come to realize that he has generally governed Canada with more cautious pragmatism than panache." The Prime Minister was also suffering from television overexposure and a perilously short temper. Once he had demanded of Western farmers: "Why should I sell your wheat...