WHAT STRIKES ME as mOSt unusual on looking back is how normal our home life seemed. 1 was fourteen and had left home to go to high school in Braeebridge, Ontario, ten miles away, betöre it ever occurred to me that others might think it strange that we could talk to our parents only on our hands, by signs and finger-spelling; that there would be special difficulties in raising five voluble, lively children if you were totally deaf and could never hear them speak — or scream; or even that Dad's deafness would make earning a living for his family just that much more difficult for him.By Doris Dickson19 min
For the first time a scientific task force is probing the mystery of the Arctic icecap: Is a new Ice Age coming or is the last one receding? This is Fred Bodsworth’s account of the detective story unfolding on Axel Heiberg Island
Want to make your muscles pay off, build courage and confidence, and get what you want out of people? Mordecai Richler on what makes the Weider brothers the Barnum & Bailey of body-building
From 1960: The Canadiens have their own way in the NHL because Frank Selke, who couldn’t get his own way when he was working for the Toronto Maple Leafs, got it in Montreal. Selke’s system: pour money into building a national hockey corporation, and you’ll win it back in Stanley Cups
TV-commercial “doctors” are closer to medicine men than medical men, an eminent Canadian physician says. Here is why the three doctors out of four who recommend those pills, pain-killers and cure-alls are seldom right and sometimes dangerousBy Dr. Alton Goldbloom13 min
On the bay, along the wharves, at the street markets, up and down the hills, in and out of the beatnik bars and seafood restaurants with Robert Thomas Allen, who falls harder for San Francisco every time the scene changes
OXFORD — At the tender age of eleven more than half a million children in Britain’s forty thousand state schools are undergoing an experience that in Canada would probably bring the earnest ladies of the Children’s Aid at the double. They are taking the first stage of the Eleven Plus, an examination that will literally shape the course of their lives.By LESLIE F. HANNON10 min
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