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Died. Victor Sifton, 64, Canadian editor and publisher who controlled the country's second biggest newspaper empire, including the Winnipeg Free Press and the Ottawa Journal, an enthusiastic horseman, World War I battalion commander in the Fourth Canadian Mounted Rifles and University of Manitoba chancellor; of a heart attack; in Winnipeg...
...brinkmanship," and built up China too fast. Happy with his rockets, he neglected other weapons and left Russia vulnerable to attack. The Secret Speech is not meant as an exercise in smugness. Author Beal, for ten years TIME's State Department correspondent and now bureau chief in Ottawa, does not underrate Russia or even Khrushchev; he is merely tired of seeing his fellow citizens underrate...
Although it was Ottawa's turn to play host to the U.S.-Canadian Cabinet-level trade and economic meeting, Canadian Finance Minister Donald Fleming and his delegation journeyed to Washington last week as a concession to the Kennedy Administration's busy schedule. Canada's thoughtful gesture, as it turned out, was just right. The visitors found President Kennedy and his New Frontiersmen eager to demonstrate that if Republicans could be receptive, Democrats could be downright friendly...
...five years of covering Indo-China, first for Associated Press and then for TIME, Ottawa-born James Wilde has made friends ranging from opium smugglers and pedicab drivers to Buddhist priests and politicians...
Some Canadians had wondered how well the older, ceremonious Prime Minister would get on with the casual young President, but by lunchtime the two men had their heads together, exchanging private quips. When he got back to Ottawa in the late afternoon, Diefenbaker, his face flushed with excitement, told newsmen: "It was an exhilarating experience. The President is most impressive, a truly tremendous personality...