Word: primed
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...Miner learned to braille last year, spent some 200 hours practicing before she began transcribing. She chose TIME to copy because she likes it, and thought blind readers would appreciate its flavor and news coverage. This week's cover story on Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker will be her 23rd. She began copying with the Martin Luther King story (Feb. 18), missed the Birdie Tebbetts cover (July 8) because she and her husband (who is president of a Chicago paper company) were on vacation. Many of her blind readers are avid baseball fans, and she plans...
This inflation, he said, is the prime cause of the United Kingdom's relatively poor payments position and the poor payments position, in turn, tends to prevent the complete confidence necessary if sterling is to regain its position as prime mover in world finance...
...weeks since he upset Canada's 22-year-old Liberal government in a form-shattering election victory, Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker has been one of the world's busiest statesmen. At a Commonwealth Conference in London, Tory Diefenbaker plugged hard for brisker Canadian-British trade, proposed that his fellow chiefs of government meet next in Canada; back in Ottawa, he presided over sessions of his brand-new Cabinet to chart Canada's new political course. Last week, in his first breathing spell since he took office, John Diefenbaker flew to home town Prince Albert...
Next day the Prime Minister and three companions flew north to forest-ringed Lac la Ronge and a few days' fishing. As a concession to Diefenbaker's new job, his companions excused him from his customary chore as cook. Trolling the glass-smooth waters for lake trout, Diefenbaker hauled in a six-pounder...
...Prime Minister's respite will be brief; knotty problems are piling up on his agenda, and many of them are tied to Canada's relations with the U.S. To identify and examine such problems, the National Planning Association, a privately supported U.S. research agency, last week set up a committee of top-level U.S. and Canadian businessmen, educators and labor leaders for a thorough study. The committee is headed by Quaker Oats Co. Chairman Douglas Stuart, onetime (1953-56) U.S. Ambassador to Canada, and Montreal Lawyer Robert Fowler, president of the Canadian Pulp & Paper Association. Among the likely...