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Release of the committee report stirred the Department of External Affairs to protest publication of "irresponsible allegations" against Norman. After Norman's suicide, the department followed up with a stiffer note demanding assurance that security information supplied by Canadian agencies would not be released by U.S. agencies without Canada's permission. The plain presumption was that some part of the evidence against Norman had come from the Canadian government. But on this point, too, Pearson had to back down. In Parliament he admitted that the Senate subcommittee had not used Canadian sources...
...regarded him as something of a misfit in their ranks. Baptist Diefenbaker seemed unsociable; he neither drank nor smoked, and joined none of the Tory clubs. He was a maverick in Parliament, campaigning for a Canadian Bill of Rights similar to that in the U.S. Constitution, and calling for stiffer antitrust laws while the Tory Party stood for pure British tradition and unfettered free enterprise. Even Diefenba-ker's Dutch-origin name did not have a Tory ring; the party never had a leader with a non-British surname...
...STIFFER ANTITRUST LAWS will be pushed in next Congress by Justice Department. Assistant Attorney General Victor Hansen, top U.S. trustbuster, will ask for power to stop bank mergers carried out by buying assets, in addition to Justice Department's existing power to act against such mergers carried out by buying stock. Hansen also wants advance notice when big companies merge, force them to give information necessary to prepare antitrust suits...
Williams' coach, Clarence Chaffee, gives Harvard the edge, because of a "well-balanced squad," but expects a "well-played and hard-fought game." He added that his team had outplayed UMass badly, so he was unable to predict how Williams would perform against stiffer opposition...
Providence provided a bit stiffer competition for the varsity cross country team yesterday than did B.U. or M.I.T. last week, but nevertheless, the Crimson managed to finish its entire twelveman team before the Friars' fifth man crossed the finish line...