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...JEAN K. LAUBER Assistant Professor of Zoology The University of Alberta Edmonton, Alta...
...some 20 other companies since 1959. The diversification began, says Seabrook, "because feeding your shareholders dividends is like feeding them opium. You have to keep giving larger doses. We didn't think we could face withdrawal symptoms." Accordingly, from gas and electricity production in the Canadian province of Alberta, International Utilities spread into ocean shipping, bus lines, demolition and salvage, steel fabrication, trucking and copper-silver mining. Revenues rose from $38 million in 1959 to $189.5 million last year; profits more than doubled to $15.7 million...
...follow an independent path. Kavanaugh, who has technically been on leave from his diocese, will continue to serve as a marriage counselor at the nonsectarian Human Resources Institute in La Jolla, Calif. Davis is now a $16,000-a-year Visiting Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alberta in Canada...
...sure that their centennial will be remembered for more than the fair alone. Oil Rigger Clint Shaw, 25, is demonstrating his patriotism by roller-skating 4,000 miles eastward from Victoria to Newfound land. Teams of Canadians dressed in the garb of the early fur traders are paddling from Alberta to Expo in a 3,300-mile canoe race. Later this month, 200 Canadians will race across the Georgia Strait near Vancouver in seagoing bathtubs fitted with outboard motors...
...push into pioneer land, where technology is taking on nature to create a new frontier unlike anything ever seen before (TIME cover, Sept. 30, 1966). With vast areas as yet unexplored, only a fraction of the returns are in. The potash finds in Saskatchewan and oil reserves in Alberta are estimated to be equal to all those known in the rest of the world...