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During a Florida vacation in 1951, J. (for Joseph) Elgin Armstrong, a horse-fancying contractor from Brampton, Ont., took a fancy to a yearling filly named Helicopter. Half an hour later, he bought the little brown trotter from her trainer and part owner, Del Miller, for $7,900. Explains Armstrong now: "I wanted to win the Hambletonian...
Opening his campaign in his home town of Guelph, Ont. last month, Drew took the challenger's initiative, swung hard with a 16-point manifesto - his party's most cohesive statement of policy in recent years. Among its points: a national low-cost housing plan; a contributory health-insurance program, "without introducing state medicine''; a revised system of farm price supports; a $500 million tax cut without harming national defense. He also charged the government with laxity in ferreting out Communists in government and defense jobs, saying. "We are not going to make our country...
...Toronto, Ont...
...decades after Ventures was formed in 1928, Lindsley often traveled the hinterlands of Canada by pack and canoe, scouting mining properties. Ventures acquired the rich Falconbridge Nickel mines at Sudbury, Ont., Giant Yellowknife (gold) mine, United Keno Hill (lead) mines and a dozen other rich Canadian producers. The 20-odd Lindsley-controlled properties listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange are now valued at more than $236 million. Through a maze of 49 holding companies and operating subsidiaries, Ventures' mining interests have spread far beyond Canada and now are on four continents...
PHILIP R. STEPHENSON Toronto, Ont...