Word: sask
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Canada's Communists can be sure that other Mounties are sprinkled through their secret cells. As far back as 1921, Mountie John Leopold went underground to become Jack Esselwein, Socialist house painter and first secretary of the Communist Party in Regina, Sask. In the old days an aspiring Mountie had to be 6 ft. tall, or better. But that was like wearing a "Kick Me" sign in the shadowy world of plain-clothes police work. Today's Mounties only have to measure an "average" 5 ft. 8 in.-and they are busily infiltrating the Montreal heroin syndicates, ingratiating...
...Howe is the same "Bashful Basher" from Floral, Sask., who signed a Detroit contract at 16 for $4,000. "I've changed my sense of values since," grins Howe, who at an estimated $30,000 a year is hockey's highest-paid pro. Yet he is still blushingly polite to fans. At a celebrity golf tournament in Ontario, a clubhouse attendant asked him for an autograph to take home to his son. Howe was halfway to Detroit before he remembered the request; abruptly, he drove back to the golf course, sought out the attendant and gave...
...smoking jacket and a blue mood, Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, 66, watched the national election returns as they flashed on the TV screen in his private railway car in Prince Albert, Sask. After eight weeks of flameless campaigning, his private estimate was that his Conservative Party would win 140 seats-not as many as the record 203 seats he held going into the election, but enough to give him a bare majority in the 265-seat House of Commons. He wound up with only 118 seats, and as a minority government would have to accept outside support...
Three Canadian newspapers-the Toronto, Ont., Globe and Mail, the Kingston, Ont., Whig-Standard and the Regina, Sask., Leader-Post-dropped the pig-goat sequence. (As a substitute the Globe and Mail reprised a Pogo swampland series from the 1940s.) In the U.S., the Toledo Blade temporarily killed Kelly. And in Tokyo, the English language Asahi Evening News, having run the sequence for 11 days, agreed to drop the rest of it after a protest from the Soviet embassy...
...Regina, Sask...