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...Michigan (price: $5.9 million). One 420-acre town in northern Michigan (price: $5.9 million). One 420-acre island in the west Caribbean ($2.9 million). The 600-acre Ponderosa ranch in Incline Village, Nev., where part of the 1960s television series Bonanza was filmed ($10 million). An oil refinery in Alberta, Canada, Bob Hope's 10,000 acres of California land and several Learjets. Those were just a few of the big-buck items available last week at the Sales Trade and Purchase International, a two-day event in Reno, described by Orga nizer Brian Lovig as a "swap meet...
Only when he was safely atop the Silverthorn Ice Corridor of 11,452-ft. Mount Athabasca in Alberta could Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, 62, finally take a breather during his vacation. He has been on a two-week cross-country trip in a private railway car, and from the start in Vancouver the Prime Minister was met at virtually every stop along the way by picketers, protesters and assorted Trudeauphobes, who screamed obscenities and lustily pelted his railway car with eggs and tomatoes. Particularly annoyed by out-of-work demonstrators at Salmon Arm, B.C., Trudeau responded before TV cameras...
...matter, just whether you win." All-American fencer Dave Heyman, originally from England, notes that although "it's just you and the other guy out there on the strip," in American fencing "you're fencing for the team, not for your self." Track co-captain Lenny Tron of Alberta says that while in Canada "the winning aspect of sports is just as great as in the U.S. Americans place extra emphasis on team performance. The "unfortunate" result is that "a coach's fate is often decided by his win-loss, record, rather than his technical knowledge of the sport," Tron...
...Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan...
Canada's multiplying miseries are as much political as economic. Power sharing between the ten provinces and the central government in Ottawa has often been difficult, and separatist pressures in French-speaking Quebec have been especially troublesome. The most recent difficulty involves the burgeoning oil wealth of Alberta and other energy-rich western provinces, which have been waging a tug-of-war with Ottawa over energy pricing, taxes and revenues...