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...Good Friends." That prompted Tory supporters in Guelph, Ont., to break out a banner proclaiming STANFIELD is A LOVER TOO. Even New Democrat Leader David Lewis, 65, was forced to admit to a persistent questioner at a campaign rally that he and Sophie, his wife of 39 years, were "very good friends, let me tell you." The latest Gallup poll gives Trudeau the edge in the election. But the figures-Liberals 42%, Tories 34%, N.D.P. 18%-so closely approximate those of the 1972 election that another minority-government era for Canada seems likely...
Gear with God. Keys' outfit, with its headquarters in Waterdown, Ont., now has twelve ordained chaplains who head the blue-uniformed chapel crews in the three rigs. It also includes 40 full-time evangelists and 300 part-time workers. Keys publishes a tabloid newspaper, The Highway Evangelist (circ. 105,000), ten times a year. Columns include "New Wheels" (births), "Gear Box Groanings" (illnesses), and "Silent Wheels" (deaths). There are also pamphlets laced with trucking metaphors like "highballing to heaven." The Bible is "the road map of life," and drivers are urged to "gear with God-you'll pull...
From Decatur, Ala., to Windsor, Ont., tornado winds chewed up homes and businesses, sent cars, buses and even freight trains spinning aloft, toppled massive power line towers and wiped out whole families. More than 60 twisters flickered out of the sky over an eleven-state area, claiming more than 300 lives and destroying property worth nearly $400 million. It was the most devastating salvo of tornadoes to hit the U.S. since 1925, when 689 were killed. President Nixon declared Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Georgia and Tennessee disaster areas. Vice President Ford, after viewing devastated portions of Ohio from...
...June 1972, a cargo door blew out of an American Airlines DC-10 over Windsor, Ont., though the crew managed to land the plane safely. After investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board sent a number of recommendations to the Federal Aviation Administration for implementation as an "airworthiness directive." The directive, a drastic order with compliance supervised by the FAA, would have forced McDonnell Douglas and airlines flying the DC-10 to make certain design changes in the cargo door...
Catharine's, Ont. A solid, strong, low-key player, Horton spent 19 seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs before he was traded...