October 1, 1966

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My 16 months as a Nazi

I AM A LICENSED private investigator who, more than a year ago, was employed by the Canadian Jewish Congress to infiltrate the Canadian Nazi Party. I was more successful than I expected. I became a trusted officer of the party—its local Heinrich Himmler—though I've managed to avoid being linked with the nationwide publicity that has made the name of John Beattie, the unemployed clerk who is the party's leader, familiar to most Canadians.

WHAT I LEARNED IN A BORNEO CLASSROOM

LUBOK BENDERA SCHOOL,” said the bowman of the perahu (canoe) and pointed his paddle at what looked like an oversized outhouse atop a hill. I scrambled out of the dugout. and immediately sank to my hips in the ooze of the riverbank. I struggled out and up the hill. By Manson Toynbee14 min

ROD NOW... THE SYNTHETIC MALE!

THERE’S BEEN an amazing trend in recent years to deodorize, perfume, coif and camouflage the Canadian male. It has reached a point where a man has to decide between the inescapable fact that he can now make himself look younger, handsomer, more attractive to women, and the lurking conviction that, if he goes in for adorning himself, his moral fibre will soften up to the texture of a tuttifrutti marshmallow sundae. By ROBERT THOMAS ALLEN11 min

Is this the RICHEST, TONIEST, NEWSIEST VILLAGE IN CANADA?

Rockcliffe Park nestles like a tightly rolled wad of money in the heart of our nation’s capital. It’s the impenetrable hideaway of the power elite, where Great National Decisions are made . . . So goes the legend — but here are the facts By SUSAN DEXTER11 min

IS THE WORLD (OR ANYBODY) READY FOR LEONARD COHEN ?

His concerns: sex, LSD, pot, poetry and the expanding consciousness. His status: the best young poet in Canada. His finances: chaotic. His posture: Byronic. His big conclusion: "Everybody's kind of loony." He's probably saner than you are By JON RUDDY9 min

WHAT HAPPENED TO CANADA’S KINSEY? He was fired

When Dr. Ted Mann, an Anglican priest, began a study of premarital sex on the campus, he was a professor at the University of Western Ontario. When he finished, he wasn’t — by request. But he’d compiled Canada’s first sex survey By JON RUDDY7 min

MAILBAG

IN THE SECTION entitled The Look, Mordecai Richler examines British life today (Where It All Began: Has The Swing Lost Its Zing?). Unfortunately, Richler makes the mistake of assuming the shrill noises and odd behavior emanating from a microscopic group in London to be representative of British society as a whole.

CANADA: OUR GREY AND GARBAGE-GIFTED LAND

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MACLEAN’S REPORTS

CANADA: OUR GREY AND GARBAGE-GIFTED LAND

VANCOUVER’S garbagemen were on strike for 44 days earlier this summer but they made the alimentary point in about 44 hours: like a fetid monster from the deep, garbage crept out of trash cans, encroached on living space and spread itself menacingly across the city’s parks and beaches.

Hate

As the material on the facing page shows, the pamphleteers of hate are busier than ever. How can we stop them without limiting free speech? It’s a tricky legalistic problem, but Ottawa’s solved it. And soon hate-mongering like this may be outlawed across the country. BLAIR FRASER reports By BLAIR FRASER4 min

THE SYNTHETIC WOMAN

ALL RIGHT, WE'VE had woman as mother, woman as lover, woman as a Betty Friedanized bore. But now, we give you the ultimate: woman as on jet d'art. For centuries, woman has been adjusting whatever nature dished out. but she's never had such exciting and amusing tools as right now.

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