March 28, 1959
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The night the Empress of Ireland went down
She was supposedly safer than the Titanic ... but in a few fog-shrouded minutes of error she sank in the St. Lawrence with a thousand lives. This is the graphic story
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A day in the life of a spaceman
Science fiction to the contrary, new worlds aren’t conquered by carefree bachelors. The space-ship pilots will be ordinary guys with mortgages, kids and problems
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Editorial
The dilemma of our defense policy
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The art of Lunenburg cooking—and eating
For two centuries the folk of this Nova Scotia-German community have been concocting their own special ambrosia from the fruits of their land and the sea. Now a widely read cookbook and gourmets who’ve been there are telling the world about
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Mailbag
Was Berrill attacking superstition-or religion? A civil servant grammarian talks back Do you have to drink to get ahead in business?
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MOUNT ROYAL’S VALIANT STAND AGAINST PROGRESS
The hogback in the heart of our greatest metropolis is a year-round kaleidoscope of sylvan beauty— a retreat for poets and lovers— but it splits Montreal up the middle and stifles traffic like a gigantic roadblock
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THE HOME THAT REBUILDS CHILDREN’S LIVES
A unique Ottawa experiment in kindness is bringing dramatic improvement in the behavior of disturbed, unhappy little social castoffs who only grow more defiant when punished
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PREVIEW
A LOOK AT TOMORROW IN TERMS OF TODAY
Who’s going out of the social register Cent-a-mile electric cars soon on market
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Rudy Pilous’ recipe for enjoying a headache
For most of his 44 years, this ex-beer waiter, pipe cutter and hobo has thrived in tight corners. And even hockey’s most perilous job—coaching Chicago’s bewildering Black Hawks—hasn’t crushed his resilient spirit
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