July 2, 1960

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The great First of July foot race

the last survivor of Fortune, B.C.’s first Dominion Day, now reveals what really happened when Sir Wilfrid Laurier came to town and the Fortune Flier finally ran out of beer By BRUCE HUTCHISON17 min

Holiday weekend in New York

JENNIE AND I had known all about New York most of our lives. We had seen it in black and white and. more recently, in breathtaking lull-colored cinemascope. We had heard its cacophonous pulse as background noise to a thousand movies and radio and TV shows. By PETER GZOWSKI17 min

Free Asia's revolt against Western ways

Democracy is headed for a crisis in Asia. In Ceylon and Pakistan the crisis has begun; in India it will come when Jawaharlal Nehru disappears, and Nehru is seventy-one this year. By BLAIR FRASER14 min

THE YANKEES GO HOME FROM ST. JOHN'S

For two decades Pepperrell Air Force Base has provided jobs, husbands, foster parents and countless friendships for thousands of Newfoundlanders. Now there is sadness, apprehension and mounting unemployment as By BREN WALSH13 min

For the sake of argument

The Canadian male is a lont in love

Sex is not in the air here as it is in cities of Europe. Men don't turn around if a pretty girl walks by; they don’t make remarks about her legs; they don’t really give her the eye. They don't even ask for matches, or if by any chance they do, it only means they want to light a cigarette. By MARIKA ROBERT SAYS12 min

THE MEDICAL EMPIRE IN THE QUEBEC BUSH

Chicoutimi's leading industry is an astonishing hospital that telecasts surgery in color and adds buildings as fast as many big-city hospitals add beds—an unlikely empire built by an iron-willed nun almost nobody knows By Cathie Breslin11 min

Can Frank Read’s oarsmen on trace the world -again?

Driving his crews like galley slaves, UBC’s rowing coach has twice turned gangs of green kids into international champions, almost overnight. This summer, at Rome, lie may do the impossible for the third time By RAY GARDNER10 min

London Letter

ReIigioii. in politics: tile Jew iii the War Office

The British are a race of people who like to believe that they possess qualities of character and sportsmanship and that, above all. they are free of racial and religious bigotry, therefore they are shocked at the suggestion that Senator John Kennedy's chances of becoming president of the United States are reduced by his being a Roman Catholic. By BEVERIEY BAXTER7 min

BACKSTAGE

The Immigration Act: St. Ellen’s anachronistic dragon

IN THE TWO HUNDRED AND TEN emotionpacked major speeches which John Diefenbaker delivered during the 1957 and 1958 election campaigns, he made sixty-two specific promises. Forty of these pledges have since been fulfilled, at least partially. By Peter C. Newman5 min

June 181960