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...Crimson's weekend was a mix of surprising success and disappointing defeat. Joe Green, co-captain and the team's top player, was seeded No. 7 in the field. After a bye in the first round and an easy 6-1, 6-2 victory over Andre Vanier of St. John's University, Green faltered and lost to unseeded Ahn Ahn Liu of Princeton, who went on to the semifinals...
Hechtman left the university last week for his home city, Montreal, where he said he will attend Vanier College. He said he will not return to Columbia...
What Gmeiner has done for orphans, Canadian Jean Vanier has accomplished in a similar way for mentally retarded adults: permanent and caring communities. A Catholic layman and son of a former Governor General of Canada, Vanier spent 14 years of spiritual search before moving into a dilapidated old house in Trosly, France, in 1964 to share his life with two retarded men. Since then, L 'Arche (the Ark) communities, in which the normal and retarded share a common life, have opened on four continents. Vanier describes the homes as places of "human and spiritual progress," where the retarded gain...
...becomes immersed in wining and dining visiting rulers and royalty, Prime Minister Lester Pearson last week made a series of appointments aimed at strengthening Canada's top echelon of officials. First, he reached among his former political rivals for a new Governor General to succeed Georges Philias Vanier, who died last month. His choice to represent the Queen in Canada is Daniel Roland Michener, 66, a former Conservative Member of Parliament and onetime Speaker of the House whose latest post has been that of Canada's High Commissioner (ambassador) to India. As Governor General, mustachioed Michener will provide...
...been toppled from power by losing a vote in the House of Commons. Last week Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, 67, met Parliament for the first time since last June's elections, commanding a shaky conservative minority of 116 members in the 265-seat Commons. As Governor General Georges Vanier read the traditional speech from the throne setting forth the minority government's legislative program, the question was not so much whether the government will tumble, thrusting Canada into a new national election, but when...