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...Canada reported the Tories at their lowest ebb since their '58 sweep, and Nobel Peace Prizewinner Lester ("Mike") Pearson's resurgent Liberals sprinting ahead. The standings on Gallup's fever chart: Liberals, 43%; Tories, 37%. Way down on the chart with 12%, but making headway: ex-Saskatchewan Premier T. C. Douglas' New Democratic Party. It was formed last summer, on the rough model of Britain's Labor Party, by a marriage between the old socialist CCF Party and the 1,150,000-member Canadian Labor Congress...
...Zechstein salt-though there is still a slim possibility that the salt was contaminated relatively recently by bacteria that entered the crystalline mass through microscopic cracks. To buttress his theory further, Dombrowski is examining salt from even older beds. Last month the University of Montreal sent him samples from Saskatchewan deposits that are 320 million years old. In 20 experiments he found eight strains of living bacteria. Now he has broadcast a worldwide appeal for samples of pre-Cambrian salt 750 million years old, hopeful that he can find still more primitive germs...
...Canadian ice. At a formal state dinner for 100, every head snapped around as though at parade-ground command to admire the entrance of Jackie Kennedy in her pure white silk sheath. At the following reception for 500, her husband deftly fielded all topics, talked wheat with a Saskatchewan reporter, education with a college girl, trucks with a transport official and freedom of the press with a publisher. The wife of Defense Production Minister Raymond O'Hurley told Kennedy that her relatives in Ohio and Connecticut had all voted for him. "Well," replied the President, laughing, "with a name...
...Armstrong goes right up into the controversial Junior Amateur hockey leagues to recruit players. A native of Regina, Saskatchewan, the 45-year old Armstrong believes that "There is no question about it, the Canadian is a better hockey player than the American. He is on skates from the age of three, and because Canada has outdoor ice for a longer period of time than any other country except Russia, he naturally plays more hockey...
RUDOLF ALTSCHUL, M.D. University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Canada...