Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Faced with government-owned Trans-Canada's decision, privately owned Canadian Pacific had no choice except to go along. Neither have the U.S. lines-including American, Eastern and United-that compete with TCA on routes between the two countries. Though U.S. carriers complain that TCA can chop fares only because it has government support, U.S. lines will probably have to follow suit to stay competitive (See BUSINESS). Bound to suffer: Canada's railroads, which already lose money on their cross-continent runs (one-way tourist fare, including a berth but no meals or extras: $115.40). TCA Boss McGregor...
...doing their part. He wants them to "stop making scholarship awards, for embellishment purposes, to well-off students." He also thinks that professors should haunt "submerged" schools with the same tenacity as football coaches. "Why should 300 college representatives visit New Trier High School each year and hardly any, except coaches, visit the big downtown Chicago high school, only 20 miles away...
...Unsophisticated. A retiring man, Miller complained a bit about "living in a fish bowl," but beyond that the Millers managed to keep their marriage to themselves, out of the public eye and prints, except for three ill-fated pregnancies, all of which ended in miscarriage...
...interviewed hundreds before settling on Catherine Demongeot, now 10, a Parisian house painter's daughter who, as film legend naturally had it, was the only applicant to come without her mother and by subway. Somehow, she learned her scatological dialogue and emerged from the unusually rich experience unscathed-except for the fact that she fell in love with her director...
Incense to Idols, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Proving that the power and insight of her first novel, Spinster, sprang from an exceptional talent rather than from mere autobiographical circumstance, the New Zealand schoolteacher dazzlingly describes an amoral and shatteringly beautiful pianist for whom men-except for an unbending, God-obsessed minister -queue up to destroy themselves...