February 24, 1962
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THE LOTTERY IN OUR COURTS
One man serves six months for assault, another gets a suspended sentence for armed robbery. The magistrates' inconsistency is understandable, for robbery, burglary, “stopping a mail van with intent to rob," the Criminal Code allows penalties ranging from suspended sentence to life imprisonment. This is a national report on
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A Maclean's flashback
THE SHORT HEROIC CRUISE THAT SAVED HALIFAX
When fire broke out in the munitions carrier Volunteer on November 3, 1943, it threatened to blow up the ship and everybody aboard — and half of Halifax as well. This is the record of the hair-raising nine hours during which Commander Owen Robertson and his fire fighters battled flames, poisonous fumes, ricocheting ammunition, and the reluctant tugboat crew they needed to tow Volunteer to a sandbar where they could beach her before she killed them
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A QUICK TOUR OF CAPE CANAVERAL
Including · the unearthly tools of the moon-race · a neon jungle called The Platinum Strip · real Indians, fake cowboys and thousands of moon-struck tourists
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THE PEDIGREED FORESTS OF THE FUTURE
Five hundred forest scientists are trying to turn Canada's 1.71 million square miles of timber into one tame crop, like wheat. They're incubating seedlings under 24-hour light, shipping deep-frozen pollen hundreds of miles, breeding radically “improved" fast-growing hybrid trees, and sowing fields of forests from airplanes. And, for the trees' own good they sometimes set the woods on fine
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THE MAN WHO WANTS PEACE
We all do, of course. But here is what a physicist and, father named, Norman Alcock is doing about it: He quit his $15,000-a-year job. He has spent his savings trying to establish Peace Research Institutes on both sides of the Curtain. He believes — rightly or wrongly — that other people who want, peace will support, his Institutes, and that scientists working in them, can learn how to ward off World War III
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QUEBEC REPORT
A semi-Catholic movement for non-Catholic schools
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LA DIFFÉRENCE BETWEEN TWO
A POLICY BLUEPRINT FOR THE REPUBLIC OF QUEBEC
How would Marcel Chaput run an independent French-Canadian state? Would she have her own army? What about the English-speaking minority? And foreign policy, trade with Canada, nuclear arms? Here are a leading separatist’s answers
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BACKSTAGE IN OTTAWA
The Tories think the decisive votes are in suburbia
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