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...Diefenbaker gave no real inkling on how the Canadians proposed to implement the shift. Last week Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft suavely handed John Diefenbaker notice to put up or shut up. Britain, said he at a meeting of Commonwealth Finance Ministers at Mont Tremblant, Que., considered that "the most adventurous way" to increase British-Canadian trade would be to wipe out all tariffs...
...neurosis has been discovered: audiophilia, or the excessive passion for hi-fi sound and equipment. The discoverer: Dr. Henry Angus Bowes, clinical director in psychiatry at Ste. Anne's Hospital for veterans at Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Que., himself an audio fan. Tweet by tweet and woof by woof, at a research meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Psychiatrist Bowes spelled out how audiophiliacs behave...
GEORGEVILLE, Que., Dec. 18--The lake is still free of ice, and the village bettors say that Georgeville will have another splashy blue Christmas...
...lake--called Lake Memphramagog, or "Beautiful Waters" in Abenaki Indian--runs from Newport, Vt. north 32 miles through Georgeville to Magog, Que. It probably provides the main booster to the village economy, during the fishing season, when most of Hartford, Albany, and New York itself seem to invade with their dollars, low-slung cars, and fancy spinning reels. But these gents have long since retired to their Budwieser and television, leaving the village in an indolent euphoria which, every winter, seems to convince the 100 permanent inhabitants that the country life, even considering all the rigours of Quebec snow...
...optimistic diagnosis was right. During a vacation at his summer home in St. Patrick, Que., St. Laurent golfed almost daily, splashed around so regularly in the family swimming pool that he finally learned to swim (previously he could only float on his back). He went back to Ottawa not only completely restored from last summer's fatigue, but imbued with more political drive than he has shown for several years...