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Canada's most violent political storm in two decades blew itself out last week. Three weeks of bitter debate, marked by some of the wildest scenes ever witnessed in the staid Canadian Parliament, ended with the passage of the government's natural-gas pipeline bill (TIME, May 21) just six hours before the deadline for starting work on the project this year...
...sensational accusations: top Western officials of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters were conspiring with Seattle gamblers to 1) control Portland's law-enforcement agencies, 2) organize all the city's rackets, from pinball machines to prostitution. The Page One story put S. I. Newhouse's staid Oregonian into a running fight not only with local officials but also with its opposition daily, the Oregon Journal (circ...
...final" farewell tour of the U.S., Spain's youthful (64) Gypsy Vicente Escudero, grandest master of the flamenco, made an unlikely bivouac in Manhattan's staid Hotel Plaza, paused between stomping and fingernail-castanetting to reminisce about his roving life and good times. One of diminutive (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) Dancer Escudero's closest barroom buddies was the late, bibulous portrayer of Montmartre, Maurice Utrillo. Was Utrillo ever sober? Snorted Escudero: "Ah, poor Maurice! When not in his cups he would fall down, so he sought to avoid sobriety at all costs!" Is Escudero...
...Even in staid English provincial circles, nature has a way of filling marital vacuums. Frankie, the goodlooking young piano player at the local cinema, is just brash enough to make a pass at Constance, even though Melford is by now sure to become the next mayor of the town. A kiss on a snowy night, and Constance is done for. Soon she and Frankie are meeting in alleys, in old mills and, come spring, splashing idyllically in secret pools. Melford, no different from other husbands in a like fix, is naturally the last to know. What is more, he does...
Newsprint rationing gripped the British press during World War II and has clung ever since. Last week London's Times (circ. 221,972) broke the shackles by a simple expedient: it stopped using newsprint. Instead, the staid old daily began publishing on "mechanical" paper-the heavier, thicker (though still unglossy) paper used by such British magazines as the Economist and the Listener. The Times patiently planned the changeover in 1950, when it began to invest in its own paper company and set an ink manufacturer to developing a suitable ink for rotary presses. The new paper costs a third...