March 16, 1957

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History’s biggest quiz show

It will involve five thousand scientists from fifty nations last eighteen months cost 300 million dollars and its answers may change all human life. Here's the story behind the coming scientific blitz on the mysteries of the world By McKenzie Porter18 min

What I saw on a Red election day

"I stood at the village polling booths and talked to voters in the freest election behind the Iron Curtain.” Here's how free the Poles really are and what the West can do about it By BLAIR FRASER17 min

Maclean’s Movies

BEST BET The Great Man: Moon-faced old Ed Wynn in a brief noncomic role almost steals the show from José Ferrer, the star, director and co-scripter, in this sardonic and literate Hollywood satire on the broadcasting industry. Ferrer appears as a newsman assigned to put together a worshipful “biography in sound” of a dead radio-TV idol whose true identity as a human monster must be concealed from the customers at all costs. By CLYDE GILMOUR3 min

Editorial

The terrible price of a red carpet

There has been a lot of talk recently about the “free world,” as opposed to the slave world. It is a glib phrase, used by Western politicians, and like most glib phrases it is, to say the least, inexact. Recently the head of state of the largest and wealthiest nation in the free world greeted the head of state of a smaller nation in the free world.

The changing face of Canada

We’re building at the greatest rate in our history, and spending $7 billion a year. Are we getting our money’s worth? Here's the renaissance that experts say will give us a completely new look By Peter C. Newman14 min

Why don’t we brag about maple syrup?

Pioneers lived on it, outsiders rave about it, it costs peanuts to produce and it’s a $13-million windfall to farmers. But we neglect whole forests that could treble our output while gourmets ask By Frank Croft14 min