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...week long, Ottawa crowds poured into the National Gallery of Canada, and the gist of what they demanded was: take me to your fakes. The show of paintings from the collection of Walter P. Chrysler Jr. had proved unpredictably popular, but for all the wrong reasons. Between 60 and 70 of the 187 paintings in the exhibition were under critical indictment as phony-a scandal so big as to strike at the confidence that the art market is founded...
This week the doubts went down on paper. After traveling to Ottawa, where "The Controversial Century" is on exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada, New York Times Art Critic John Canaday concluded: "Within this large and fine exhibition there is secreted a second and smaller one in which pedigrees are nonexistent or dubious, and attributions are arbitrary to such an extent that, the stylistic evidence being what it is, one must question them...
Diefenbaker's legislative program was shaped to offer something for everyone-and nothing, so the Tories hoped, to unify the opposition to the point of making common cause. Mainly, his proposals sought to attack the chronic economic ills that last June forced Ottawa to impose a belt-tightening austerity program to ease Canada's imbalance of international payments. The Tories promised to balance the budget (after five straight deficits), to create 1,000,000 new jobs in the next five years, and to set up a brain-trusting National Economic Development Board to plan economic growth...
...problem separately, it was clear that the personal lobbying had done some good. "Our policy has taken a hammering," sighed a Cabinet minister, "but the worst is over." One reason for his optimism was that the Commonwealth ministers at the conference had aired their harshest warnings for consumption in Ottawa, Sydney, Christchurch, Kingston and Karachi rather than London. With that behind them, all seemed more willing to listen to Britain...
...suitcase to a waiting jeep. (To this day David makes a fetish of carrying other people's bags for them.) After his Army discharge, David, now 30, began wondering what career to follow. The decision had in fact been made ten years before during a weekend visit to the Ottawa home of an old Rockefeller family friend and adviser, Canada's late Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. King strongly advised David to follow his bent for economics and foreign affairs by becoming an international banker.* The bank was easy to choose: David's uncle, Winthrop Aldrich, had headed...