For six years John Foster Dulles has symbolized to friend and foe alike all that the world dislikes about U. S. leadership. Now the end of his reign is in sight. But his policies may remain, a Maclean’s editor concludes after examining the heirs apparentBy BLAIR FRASER20 min
Just open your mouth once in public and your name goes into the secret files of unpaid after-dinner orators. Then you’re doomed to an eternity of roaming the nation’s hotel dining rooms, picking at thousands of execrable meals, and making and remaking the same old speech to audiences of 27. So warns a famous writer (and retired public speaker)By BRUCE HUTCHISON16 min
For twenty-two years it’s offered the citizens of Toronto the Good — and their bemused visitors —scorching strip tease at lunchtime, and everything else from Duke Ellington to Patti Page. Now the wreckers’ hammers hover over the glittering houri whose like we’ll never see againBy McKenzie Porter15 min
Experts say that most marriages stand or fall on the ability of husband and wife to talk things over sensibly. Here are the latest ideas in this tricky and often-neglected fieldBy Janice Tyrwhitt15 min
Today’s timber wolf shuns men. His kills weed out weak deer. The price on his head is a superstitious holdover from his gory past. A famous wildlife writer urges a new deal for the wily beast that invented co-existenceBy FRED BODSWORTH14 min
A LOOK AT TOMORROW IN TERMS OF TODAY Safety belts really safe. Law next? All-Richard hockey line depends on Claude SAFETY BELTS IN CARS, an optional device everywhere up to now, may soon be made compulsory in cars owned in New York state. It’s one result of a 7-year study of almost 100,000 accidents by the Automotive Crash Injury Research unit of Cornell University.
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