Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leadership, the Conservatives lost the 1963 election to Lester Pearson's Liberals. Despite his obvious desire to return to office, Diefenbaker has failed to find a popular issue on which to attack Pearson, actually lost prestige through his contentious opposition to Canada's new maple-leaf flag. The present revolt against him was staged by a group of respected Quebec M.P.s who consider Diefenbaker too old, too crotchety, too out of touch with the country to lead the Conservative Party. What kept him in command was his almost messianic popularity in the western prairie provinces and the lack...
During an audience in London last week with Prime Minister Lester Pearson, Queen Elizabeth II signed a formal proclamation giving Canada its own national flag after 252 years under British colors. It should have been a moment of pride for Pearson. In 21 months of difficult minority rule, his accomplishments, besides the new maple-leaf flag, include armed forces integration, improved federal-provincial relations, the Columbia River Treaty with the U.S. -while the economy has continued strong and growing. But Mike Pearson is doing very little pointing with pride these days. A series of embarrassing scandals cloud and threaten...
...once on the fairway) on a 367-yd. hole and still wound up 30 yds. short of the green. Taking Kentucky windage on the oceanside 18th, Palmer sent a No. 3 wood angling out to sea, smiled happily as the ball blew back right in line with the flag. Scores skyrocketed: Don January shot an 88, and P.G.A. Champ Bobby Nichols checked in with a Sunday duffer...
Along with a national flag and a national airline, a sweet tooth seems to be one of the first things developed by the world's new nations. Because the desire for sweets goes hand in hand with rising expectations, the worldwide sugar industry is undergoing its greatest expansion in history. Practically every sugar nation is planting new cane and beet sugar, increasing its present yields and putting up new plants that turn out not only sugar but such valuable byproducts as paper, plastics, hardboard and tiles. Result: world sugar production this year will climb to more than 65.7 million...
...Miller, 53, a coal tycoon who is motivated equally by patriotism and enlightened self-interest. When he inherited his father's coal mining and distribution company in 1958, Miller found that his Australian-built colliers and their unionized Australian crews could not compete economically with the dilapidated foreign-flag tankers and their low-wage Asian crews. He told the oil companies that unless they used Australian tankers, which would raise their costs and thus make coal more competitive, he would go into the oil-tanker business himself. Says Miller: "They had good warning...