Word: altas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bruce Thomas, 24, took off for Canada in 1969, after his draft board changed his classification to 1-A. He got a job as a recreation director in Slave Lake, Alta., and soon took over as editor of the weekly paper, the Lesser Slave Lake Scope. The paper keeps Thomas, his Alberta-born wife and one employee busy. A self-confessed "disturber of the social scene," he goes after conflicts of interest in the local council and finds frequent opportunity to warn his readers against the "rat race of U.S. life." Amnesty, he says, does not matter to him. "Some...
They cannot be run for quick profit, either. Ted Johnson, onetime manager of a ski lodge at Alta, Utah, last year opened Snowbird not many miles away. Johnson and his principal backer, Texas Oilman Dick Bass, have dumped $17 million into Snowbird, including $2,250,000 for a Swiss-built aerial tram that carries 125 people at a time up an 11,000-ft. incline to the main peak. The tram, most capacious of its kind in the world, is started and stopped by a computer. Johnson and Bass do not expect to be in the black for another...
Edmonton, Alta...
...CARLOS RODRIGUEZ Calgary, Alta...
...memory of a sordid prison system exposed shortly after he left office and a scandal involving a savings and loan firm run by his cronies. Faubus, 60, campaigned with his 31-year-old bride Elizabeth at his side, a silent reminder that last year he divorced his first wife Alta after 37 years of marriage. The embittered Alta, 57, at first threatened to enter the race against him, but confined herself to warning voters not to trust his campaign promises because "he promised to love, cherish and obey when he married me, and he broke that vow." The divorce settlement...