September 22, 1962

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THE LAST DAYS OF THE FRENCH IN ALGERIA

A young Canadian adventurer went back to Algeria in May and found the fairly civilized country he'd known in 1959 was now “an object lesson in how not to govern or to live ” This is his account of the anarchy before the Independence By PETER STOLLERY25 min

WHAT WENT WRONG WITH CANADA?

Our crumbled dollar is only the most visible sign of the crisis that has reversed our postwar boom. A report from Maclean's Ottawa editor on our economic change of life By PETER C. NEWMAN15 min

VANDALISM

The kids’ crime that no one really understands

Not even the delinquents who do it can say why they break up other People’s houses, their own schools and private businesses. Yet senseless destruction of property now costs a million dollars a year in just one city By JACK BATTEN14 min

THE SAVAGE FIGHT FOR LIFE Above the timberline

Only a few animals, some violent, many gentle, can survive the beautiful but harsh world above the trees. Here, a woman who lived there describes how animals outsmart the mountains By JEAN GEORGE13 min

THE HIGHEST SCORING BARITONE IN HISTORY

BERNARD “BOOM BOOM” GEOFFRION is a crooner, inn keeper, lady-killer, ex-racehorse-owner, family man and rightwinger — some people say the best in hockey. At 31 he’s a legend, and the legend, c’est magnifique By Peter Gzowski10 min

MINUTE BY MINUTE ON THE DAY BY DAY

Birth is beautifully arranged by nature to bring together the needs of the baby and the capacity of the mother. It is well timed. The baby becomes mature enough to be born just when he is so large that the womb is stretched to its limits. Yet he is still barely small enough to get out through the narrow birth passage. By Geraldine Lux Flanagan9 min