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...military hardware, even faintly hoping that a cold war thaw might resolve the question. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's government delayed for months a $350 million decision: whether to replace the outmoded Sabre day fighters flown by eight of Canada's twelve NATO squadrons in Europe. Ottawa's long irresolution spurred a mild rash of public and private talk that Canada should spend the money on aid to underdeveloped nations instead-to the extent that a discomfited Diefenbaker, while collecting an honorary degree at Michigan State last month, felt compelled to reaffirm unwavering support for NATO...
Royal Fending. With Prime Minister and Mrs. John Diefenbaker and a party of other notables from Ottawa and Washington,* Ike and Mamie joined their hosts aboard the blue-hulled yacht Britannia for a 31-mile, five-hour cruise through the lower channels and first three locks of the seaway-which have actually been in use for nine weeks (TIME...
...words-a scholar's quota-just for everyday discourse. He gives some of his verbs hundreds of forms, one for each subtle shade of meaning.* But the Eskimo has never printed the words he speaks. Last week, from the Department of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources in Ottawa came the first serious effort to put the Eskimo in periodical print...
What moved north from Ottawa was a slender magazine called Inuktitut (The Eskimo Way), a publication so thoroughly Eskimo that even the Department of Northern Affairs cannot fully translate its contents. Its 40 pages were written by Eskimos, illustrated by Eskimos, typed for engraving on a special typewriter with Eskimo characters, the strange shorthand symbols devised by 19th century Anglican missionaries to approximate the language. "Those writings like this," went Inuktitut's introduction, "they have a name: 'The Eskimo Way.' By the Eskimos only have they been written, and by the Eskimos will they generally be read...
...Airport this week, she will whisk into an itinerary that, for all the press of excited planning across Canada, hews to cozy informality. Banished is the usual stuffy round of honor-guard reviews, cornerstone layings, garden parties. Tarrying for only a day or less in such cities as Ottawa, Winnipeg and Vancouver, the Queen will see more of her people and country than most Canadians do in a lifetime. "I can't think of a single event where silk hats will be worn," says Lieut. General Howard Graham, Ottawa's top tour planner. "Perhaps a better word...