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Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, leader of Canada's all-conquering Progressive Conservative Party, flew off to Bermuda last week in a happy haze of fatigue and felicitations, more than ready to soak up a few days of sunlight before tackling his country's lowering problems of recession and unemployment. Behind him was the most dramatic election landslide in Canada's history, a coast-to-coast sweep that carried Tory M.P.s into 208 of the House of Commons' 265 seats, and cut the combined opposition down to a hapless...
Behind the Eight Ball. Heedless of the confusion, the two fighters worked hard with their fists. Basilio plodded forward, willing to soak up punishment as he pushed close enough to pound Robby around the short ribs. Sugar Ray stabbed and ran. Whenever the Chittenango (N.Y.) onion farmer caught him, Robby covered himself nicely in the clinches. The handsome Harlem hot shot was a reasonable facsimile of the man who was once the fanciest fighter in the prize ring, but he was no longer the swift-punching dancing master who had moved up from the welterweights to terrorize the middleweights...
...paintings which he sells for as much as $280 each: place a large, fresh white canvas on the floor, pour paint and printer's ink on the canvas, jump up and down on the paint, dance and skip over the surface, ride over the canvas on a bicycle, soak the canvas in paraffin, shovel sand on the painting to give it "added texture...
...Soak the Rich. Having already borrowed the legal limit from the Bank of France and hoping to borrow more to offset the government deficit, Mollet had encountered Bank of France Governor Wilfrid Baumgartner, conscientious keeper of the country's precious bullion reserves. Said smooth, silver-haired Baumgartner: "I want collateral-taxes. And quickly." Mollet's answer: a soak-the-rich tax program that hit corporation earnings, dividends and inventories, added four francs per liter...
...nation's acute food shortage with bureaucratic doubletalk, he was hooted down by Congress Party M.P.s. When Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari announced sharp increases in taxes on railway fares, gasoline and vegetable oils, the Congress benches moaned, denounced their own new budget as a program designed to "soak the poor." Said one Congressman in Bombay: "It's getting fashionable to be anti-Congress...