October 22, 1960
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You can so drive to Nicaragua
Officials told her it was impossible—they said the Inter-American Highway from Alaska to Argentina was just an imaginary red line in a mapmaker’s mind. But this B.C. housewife defied bandits, washouts, jungle tracks and border guards to prove them wrong
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How Britain’s National Health Service works
A Canadian reporter, newly arrived with his young family, takes a hard look at the system that Britons no longer call “socialized medicine”
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Epitaph on a small fleet: the brave corvettes
They were the least glamorous of warships—too small, too clumsy, their crews too green. But in the bitter struggle for the Atlantic, they were too tough to quit
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The advantages of being black
It’s true the two races are not equal— but some of the inequalities are in the black man’s favor. This is a report on Negro superiority and its reasons
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JACK McCARTAN: the one-man American invasion of big-time hockey
Previous Yanks in the NHL failed to crack the normal Canadian monopoly because American fans didn’t care—but that was before the U.S. won an Olympic title. Now it will be different, if the rookie goaltender is as good as he looks
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Jack Pickersgill’s third contentious life on Parliament Hill
1937-53: the most powerful backstage figure in Ottawa 1953-57: the most derided minister in the cabinet 1957-60: the deadliest marksman in opposition
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For the sake of argument
We Jews are almost as bad as the Gentiles
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The brightening outlook for CHILDLESS COUPLES
People who’d like to have children but can’t are the subject of increasing study by medical investigators. Here’s a report on recent findings
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The lost lore of childhood
Ways and words that once grew wild in any corner lot are withering under cultivation by little league coaches and TV pitchmen
November 51960
