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...year-old Quebec stevedore complained of stomach pains, weight loss, nausea, shortness of breath and a cough. Most frightening of all, his face had turned a morbid blue-grey. Doctors suspected a severe vitamin deficiency, but when 49 identical cases appeared within seven months in the Quebec area, they questioned their first diagnosis...
Cobalt in the Head. The brand that they favored was Dow, a Canadian beer brewed in Montreal and Quebec. But no problem had been encountered in Montreal. What was the difference be tween the two brewing processes? In Quebec, an extra dose of a cobalt salt had been added to build and hold the beer's foamy head. When? One month before the first patient's symptoms appeared. Though the amount of cobalt was well below legal levels, and though no conclusive cause-effect proof could be made, Dow dumped $1,260,000 worth of the suds into...
...oust-Diefenbaker movement centered around Dalton Camp, 46, the party's national chairman. An articulate Toronto advertising man, Camp blames the party's two straight losses in national elections on Diefenbaker's failure to appeal to the urban areas, to the Catholic French of Quebec, and to Canada's youth. For the past two months, Camp has been openly demanding that the party call a "leadership" convention to oust the old prairie lawyer...
...kept trying. In Connecticut, she had to follow a Hungarian violinist who made everyone cry; one night in the Catskills, her routine was interrupted by round-by-round reports on the Patterson-Johansson fight; in Quebec, she was foil to Kudabux, the Man with the X-Ray Eyes; in Bridgeport, Conn., the manager blared over the loudspeaker...
...development will yield 4,500,000 kw. of power-more than is generated on the Niagara River and three times that of Grand Coulee Dam in Washington. It will flow 700 miles, over the free world's highest voltage (735,000 volts) transmission line, across continental Newfoundland to Quebec's provincially owned utility, Hydro Quebec. Churchill power will not only double the provincial electric output but also perhaps enable the utility company to export a surplus as far south as New York City...