June 16, 1962

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How the animals in the zoo get their kicks

Chimps pick locks, elephants eat firehose, polar bears try to eat people and tiny deer can be deadly. This is a backstage tour of the menagerie By ROBERT THOMAS ALLEN19 min

THE SWEATY FIGHT FOR A SINGLE SEAT

MOST OF THE NOISE and all the pomp in the current election campaign has come from the four national leaders who, like middle-aging knights with party colors flowing from their lances, have ridden off in all directions to seek power in verbal combat with one another. By PETER C. NEWMAN18 min

The merciful aftermath of the Moroccan oil tragedy

Ten thousand men, women and children, paralyzed by poisoned cooking oil in 1959, might have ended their lives as cripples. Now doctors can report that all but a handful are walking and working again. This is how an international medical team led by Canadians carried out an historic exercise in the salvage of human beings By PETER DESBARATS15 min

SPECIAL REPORT

There’s more fury than sense in the medical care war

At stake immediately is the province’s Medical Care Insurance Act. Under the Act the 900 doctors of Saskatchewan and their patients will cease to conduct their dealings through a combination of voluntary insurance and private payment. Instead, the doctors will bill the government for 85 percent of their bills to patients, under the schedule of fees set by the College of Physicians and Surgeons. By RALPH ALLEN13 min

THE LOST ART OF FISHING FOR FUN

You can still fish some of the world’s greatest lakes and streams in Canada. You can even catch fish close to home. But only if you know what the angler at the right tells here By Ralph Allen’s12 min

How to spot a home-grown image

Canada wants a glamorous image. The CNR wants a streamlined one. Banks want friendly ones. Politicians want dynamic ones. Everybody wants a new one. Here is the first field guide to the images you now meet every day By Shirley Mair11 min

THE CASE FOR TAKING CHILDREN AWAY FROM THEIR PARENTS

Many parents would be jailed if they treated other people the way they treat their own children. Here, a leading child psychologist argues that all of us share a duty to help separate children from parents who do them physical or mental harm By DR. KARL BERNHARDT MAKES10 min

Some little bug is going to get me some day

The bomb? World war? They can't scare a man who has always feared the day his real enemies come for him — "with their little destructive teeth smiling" By ROBERT FONTAINE7 min

FOR THE SAKE OF ARGUMENT

TORONTO AND MONTREAL SHOULD BE PROVINCES

By making our biggest cities our newest provinces we could end the national rule of Ontario and, Quebec and give Toronto and Montreal a chance to make themselves worth living in By DONALD C. ROWAT6 min

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