CANADA: Big Wind from Ontario

While Ontario bowed to a big wind from the U.S., Manhattan last week experienced a big wind from Ontario. Through western Ontario last week whipped a devastating near-hurricane, strayed from Texas (see p. 22), that killed three people, leveled grain fields, pancaked buildings, blocked highways, raveled out power and telephone lines. And into Manhattan on a three-day good-will visit blew dimple-chinned, corpulent Mitchell ("Mitch") Frederick Hepburn, who, in or out of politics, acts as if he were equipped with a built-in hurricane.

Canadians know Mitch Hepburn as the Liberal Premier of Ontario, a tough, loud-talking self-made politico on the lines...

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