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...Pierre Elliott Trudeau, LL.D., Prime Minister of Canada...
...Canada, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau's minority government fell from power after a vote of no confidence on its budget policies. Canadian voters may return another minority government-possibly Trudeau's Liberals again, possibly the opposition Tories-in an election scheduled for July...
...spectrum of racing trainers, Stephens falls somewhere between the late Max Hirsch of King Ranch, a taskmaster who might run nine horses into the ground to produce one Triple Crown champion like Assault, and Rokeby Stable's Elliott Burch, whose patience with a thoroughbred is almost limitless. Possessing what Gaines calls "the intuitive knowledge of a great horseman," Stephens tailors training routines to fit each of his horses. With Cannonade, for instance, he has concentrated on long gallops, while scheduling generous periods of rest to keep the horse fresh...
...appealing his decision, and so are the authors and Knopf, which anticipates that its legal fees will be between $50,000 and $100,000. In the meantime, the book will be published with 168 deletions, which present something of a structural problem for Knopf Editor Charles Elliott. He is puzzling over how to make a page break where there is a blank space. At one point, a footnote refers to a deleted passage. "We don't know where to put the asterisk," he says...
CROPS. Even some farmers are speculating in a way. Last year Illinois Farmer Elliott Y. Johnson, 51, earned 50% more than in 1972 because the price of the produce he sold more than doubled. Soybeans, for example, rose to $8.60 per bu., from $3.65. Johnson held back more than half his harvest for sale this year, when prices could go still higher. Meanwhile, he plans to buy a new $19,000 tractor and make expensive improvements on his grain elevator. "Now," Johnson chuckles, "is a real good tune for a farmer to be paying off his debts...