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...Lift from Poverty. Partly because of such handicaps, some Canadians favor economic union with the U.S. Denouncing "those who talk narrow economic nationalism," Saskatchewan Premier Ross Thatcher recently praised U.S. capital for lifting his province from poverty to prosperity. In British Columbia, Commerce Minister Ralph Loffmark urged an end to all tariffs between the two nations. "I don't think political domination would result," he said, "but even if it did, it wouldn't be the end of the world...
...five months Pole Vaulter John Pennel, 25, has traveled-from São Paulo, Brazil, to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, to Los Angeles, to Boston, to Baltimore-all with the notion of be coming the first man ever to vault 17 ft. indoors. Along the way he competed in 16 meets, won his event in 13 of them, set two new world records (16 ft. 9½-in. and 16 ft. 10 in.). In Boston, he soared cleanly over the bar at 17 ft. i in., only to dislodge it with his arm on the way down. In Los Angeles, he cleared...
...need for uranium would be satisfied by 1970. But a new contract with the Atomic Energy Commission allows the company to sell uranium commercially, and nuclear-minded private utilities promise a rich future market. Nevertheless, Homestake is diversifying further, has lately entered partnerships to produce potash (for fertilizer) in Saskatchewan, iron in Australia, lead and zinc in Missouri, and is studying a copper mining investment in Mauritania...
...Single Hobby. One of seven sons of a Saskatchewan General Motors dealer, Murphy-like most of his brothers-became an auto salesman while still in his teens. During the Depression he went broke selling Chevrolets in the farm town of Manteca, Calif., but bounced back as an Oldsmobile dealer in Honolulu. He made his first financial killing by stockpiling trucks just before the start of World War II, reselling them at a hefty profit. In 1963, he paid $3,800,000 to buy 90% control of the then-floundering Honolulu Iron Works Co., which makes sugar mills. By chopping...
Died. Bryan Winslow Newkirk, 77, Canadian financier, a North Carolina-born wheeler-dealer who promoted Quebec copper and Saskatchewan oil into a network of 61 companies with assets of $30 million, all of which made him a big man in Canada but a fugitive to the U.S. Government for his refusal to pay an estimated $400,000 in taxes on his across-the-border stock operations; of a heart attack; in London, England. Said Newkirk: "They can go to hell. I'm a Canadian citizen, and they can't touch me." Nor could they...