Word: restlessness
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...although Prime Minister John Diefenbaker is given less chance to squeak through again, there seems to be no national consensus, or leadership, capable of effectively uniting the western farmers, Ontario factory workers, underemployed Nova Scotia coal miners, or Quebec's restless French Canadians, who seem more and more anxious to move into a separate world of their own. In Vancouver's Executive Club last week, a member complained: "Yesterday, for the first time in my life, my wife asked me how to vote in the election." He paused. "And you know something? For the first time...
During his protean career, John Huston, 56, has been a boxer, cavalryman, painter, writer and Hollywood director of such classics as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen and Freud. What next? The ever restless Huston will soon move in front of the camera -to play the Boston Irish Cardinal Glennon in Otto Preminger's film, The Cardinal. Snorted a poker-playing crony: "The only problem is getting the robes off him when the movie's finished. He'll be pax vobiscuming all over the joint...
Whether or not Britain gets into the Common Market, Continental retailers are glumly resigned to sharp competition from the biggest of British shopkeepers: restless Sir Isaac Wolfson, 65. To his collection of 2,600 retail stores in Britain, Canada and South Africa, Sir Isaac has lately added the biggest mail-order house in The Netherlands. Wehkamp Fabriekskantoor. And though he paid $760,000 for it, Sir Isaac clearly regards Wehkamp as only a stepping stone; already he is laying plans to expand the company's business into Belgium and West Germany...
...Cuba crisis stayed at the top of the world's agenda. Restless and annoyed after days of Russian doubletalk and Castro bombast. President Kennedy held a long meeting with the National Security Council, called the Joint Chiefs of Staff into session. Messages sped back and forth between Washington and Moscow-but outside the innermost circles of the U.S. and Soviet governments, no one knew what John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev were saying, and perhaps promising, to each other...
...Elly Kadoorie & Sons. Ltd., which is named after their late father, an Iraqi Jew who became a naturalized British subject, went to Hong Kong in 1880 and carved out a fortune in land, rubber, banking and insurance. Together, the brothers sit on the boards of 36 major companies. Restless, sophisticated Lawrence Kadoorie, 63, has also been on several government administrative boards, pays particular attention to the power company, the biggest Kadoorie investment. He collects ancient Chinese art works because "it gives me a sense of calmness," and dotes on sports cars because "they're cheaper than race horses...