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...Cuban crisis showed up the vital hole in joint North American defense. For 48 hours after President Kennedy's blockade announcement, Ottawa could not even make up its mind whether to put Canada's armed forces on alert. While Diefenbaker's Cabinet took its time trying to decide, the RCAF took matters into its own hands. Responsible for sharing in the defense of an air corridor point at the industrial heart of North America. RCAF commanders brought their five squadrons (64 planes) of U.S.-built F-101B Voodoo interceptors to combat readiness; air bases were sealed...
...Manhattan dealers to protect the public against shoddy practices and shady dealers; this was its first big occasion to act. Unobtrusively, the association got its able counsel, Ralph Colin, to try to warn Canadian art officials that the show, which was scheduled to go from Provincetown to Ottawa, was potentially damaging. The National Gallery of Canada put on the show anyway, in effect threw its own prestige behind the Chrysler paintings...
...Case of Ingestion. Lawyer Colin also alerted John Canaday, art editor of the New York Times, who had given the show a rhapsodic review when it was on display in Provincetown. Only when the story seemed ripe to break did Canaday rush to Ottawa to review the show again. This time he echoed what the association had been saying all along, explained his goof of last summer as being due to the intoxicating air of Cape Cod and "the ingestion of seafood platters.'' Now the curious story began to unfold in public, and the Chrysler catalogue itself became...
...Ottawa, a member of Parliament demanded to know whether the government should not make an investigation of its own. in view of the fact that the National Gallery had so deeply committed itself to the Chrysler exhibit. At the gallery, goateed Director Charles Comfort sought what comfort he could in denouncing the American charges and in celebrating Ottawa's sudden new interest in art. Said he bravely: "We expect we will have even bigger crowds. This is the best publicity we could possibly...
...Tariff Commission is currently studying the arguments for lumber quotas and tariff increases. And last week U.S. negotiators sat down with Canadian officials in Ottawa to try to persuade them to put voluntary quotas on lumber exports. But the Canadians-who already run a $1.2 billion trade deficit with the U.S.-see no reason to increase...