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...Scapegoat. The Coyne affair showered political sparks all over Ottawa's Parliament Hill. Liberal Opposition Leader Lester Pearson called for an emergency debate in the House of Commons. Hitherto opposed to Coyne's high interest rates and his stubborn insistence that Canadians are living beyond their means, Pearson suddenly came to the governor's defense. He challenged Finance Minister Donald Fleming to prove that Coyne had blocked a single government program. "We will not support the government in any attempt to use the governor as a scapegoat for their own faults," he cried...
...cones to nuclear testing. He is no propagandist, nor does he see nuclear-age problems in black and white. He is deeply worried about the doomsday peril of nuclear warfare, but he does not let this emotion-charged subject, about which many scientists are bitterly partisan, drive him to stubborn extremes. In judging nuclear test ban treaties, he recognizes the difficulty of detecting clandestine tests, but he still hopes that the nuclear nations can come to agreement before it is too late. Far more than the award citation could spell out, Hans Bethe continues to contribute "to the security...
...trade unions today may well control the continent tomorrow. No one is more aware of this than Ghana's ambitious Kwame Nkrumah, who for months has been striving to export his own authoritarian Marxist-style unionism to all of Africa. But everywhere Nkrumah turns, he finds the same stubborn opponent, the West's International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, which has won affiliates in 22 African nations with the argument that the worker fares best under demo cratic unionism in a free society. Last week the two systems clashed head-on at a 38-nation conference in Casablanca...
Like crab grass in a suburban lawn, wild oats in a field of wheat are an insidious pest. The stubborn weed looks like wheat, grows like wheat, and is so closely related to wheat that neither cultivation nor common weed killers can hold it back without harming the wheat crop. But a couple of U.S. manufacturers have finally concocted the kind of agricultural magic that farmers have been seeking for centuries: a weed-killing chemical so selective that it can actually tell wild oats from wheat...
Anxious Moments. Price frankly admits that Carry Back's stubborn insistence on running his own race-a nerve-jangling, come-from-behind performance-has caused many an anxious moment. In the Wood Memorial at New York's Aqueduct race track.,Carry Back dawdled well off the pace as the pack pounded into the stretch-and anxious Jockey Sellers desperately whaled him with his whip. Angered, the colt pinned back his ears, curled his lips in a defiant snarl, and refused to run. He finished a bad second to Globemaster, whom he later beat decisively in both the Derby...