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Died. Joseph Armand Bombardier, 56, inventor of the Snowmobile, a Quebec auto mechanic who devised the tracked rough-weather vehicle in 1937, went on to build ten to 15 versions for such snowbound types as South Pole Explorer Edmund Hillary, the U.S., Canadian and Russian armies; of cancer; in Sherbrooke...
Messieur: Un vrai bijou! Vous avez aborde un sujet fort difficile avec une main de maitre. Mes plus sinceres felicitations. PAUL DUCHASTEL Quebec...
...owns the biggest hardware chain in the region, the public transit system in Saint John, 1,700,000 acres of woodlands, several mines, a steel fabricating plant, a shipyard, 16 tankers and 2,000 service stations that blazon the Irving name in red, white and blue from Newfoundland to Quebec. Almost everyone in New Brunswick has strong feelings-pro or con-about K. C. Irving. But he has so effectively walled himself from the public that few really know...
...Boston with his family's white wolfhound as conversational bait. When considerably more than his year's allowance had gone up in the heady smoke of this lonely freshman debauch, Bucky cabled a rich cousin and was promptly packed off in disgrace to a cotton mill in Quebec. Harvard gave him a second chance, but Bucky was not having any. "Once again I determined to get fired simply by spending more money than I had. I succeeded...
...scientists tested their new dating system on tektites found in Canada and the U.S. All proved to be 34 million years old. Impactites from the Clearwater Lake crater in northern Quebec and from far-off Libya have the same age. Other tests show that tektites found in Czechoslovakia pair up with impactites from an ancient meteor crater in Germany. Both are 15 million years old. An impactite from Tasmania is 700,000 years old, the same age as tektites found in Australia, Indonesia and Southeast Asia...