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...promoter, Detwiler's dreams have no boundaries. In 1950 he hustled into newly oil-rich Edmonton, Alta. with a 4-ft. by 5-ft. shiny-brown briefcase, drew out a series of dazzling plans to redevelop the city's downtown area in a $25 million project. The project failed to win the support of the necessary 66⅓% of voters in a referendum. He also urged U.S. and British church leaders to make Canterbury Cathedral a Protestant "Vatican" at a cost of $25 million, including hidden lighting that would give the effect of sunrise, sunset and moonlight...
...that it was needed to deliver beer. Moscow police stopped a small delivery truck bearing the sign, "Home Delivery of Buns and Crullers," discovered that it was delivering the bakery manager to the railroad station to meet incoming relatives. A roving reporter from Komsomolskaya Pravda found that in Alma Alta the director of a state livestock farm had placed a large roll of absorbent cotton on the back seat of his car, and declared that it was a Mobile Veterinary Laboratory. The Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences had not yet handed over a single one of the dozens of cars...
...former Dartmouth racer said he plans to leave for Alta, Utah and Aspen, Colo., next week before going on to Squaw Valley...
Three-Bedroom Market. The new way of life has changed the face of Canada. Just after World War II, Salesman John Witherspoon bought a new house on the southern edge of Calgary, Alta. (population growth: from 104,000 in 1948 to 225,000 now). Today, he travels 50 blocks south to see his children, who live on the northern edge of a new subdivision. In metropolitan Toronto, which completed Canada's first subway in 1954, European immigration has pushed population from 1.100,000 to 1.600,000 in ten years. In Vancouver...
Calling for Fix. In Calgary, Alta., the Herald ran a personal ad: "Rented room on Aug. 18 in East Calgary. Couldn't find way back. Could landlord please phone me at AV 9-9586 and ask for Jake Funk...