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Last year Kerr let it be known that he planned to retire from the council and devote his time to consulting, lecturing and writing a book on industrial relations. He will also pursue his hobby, growing apples in his Alta, Calif., orchard. The council decided that Kerr was an indispensable man: after five years and 35 comprehensive reports, it has announced it will close its doors at the end of this month...
...Alta Ahmad Chappaqua...
...Alta M. Evans...
...title he earned last week is one that Joe Clark has coveted since his boyhood days in High River, Alta., when, recalled a cousin, "he really did say that he wanted to be Prime Minister. We used to kid him a lot about it." The shy, ungainly son of a local newspaper editor and his schoolteacher wife, Clark was an average student who did well in English and public speaking. He became a member of the campus Tory club while earning a B. A. in history at the University of Alberta, and studied law for a year before realizing...
...risk of being called a traitor," as Joe Clark tartly put it on a swing to Quebec City, the youthful Tory leader concentrated on the Trudeau economic record and pledged a passel of policies to Get Canada Working Again. The son of a newspaper publisher in High River, Alta., Clark has proved himself an adept parliamentary leader in his three years as Conservative chief. Many Canadians, however, worry about his relative inexperience, particularly in foreign affairs. After a somewhat nervous start on the hustings, Clark found his stride, advancing himself as a consensus seeker as opposed to "Mr. Trudeau...