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...fashionable Sherbrooke Street, within easy distance of the banks and big businesses that they dominated almost exclusively. For the French-speaking upper class of lawyers, intellectuals and politicians, it was the history-drenched Grande Allée, in the provincial capital of Quebec City, 150 miles farther north along the St. Lawrence River. The two peoples were more or less separate but certainly not equal: as early as 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville noted that "the immense majority is everywhere French. But it is easy to see that the French are the conquered race...
...St. Lawrence?frozen solid or clogged with ice floes for nearly five months a year?is the lifeline of Quebec: a rugged land of 594,860 sq. mi., bigger than France and Spain combined. As in the rest of Canada, most of the province's population huddles along a narrow ribbon in the south; the vast majority of Quebecois live within 50 miles of the St. Lawrence, and 82% live within 200 miles of Montreal (pop. 2,758,780). Quebec is rich in iron, copper, zinc and timber, and produces 80% of the non-Communist world's asbestos...
...than the Episcopal schismatics, and they tried desperately to enlist a third consecrator. One retired bishop agreed to participate, then backed out last year for health reasons. The schismatics were counting on Bishop Clarence Haden of Sacramento, a crusty conservative who celebrated Communion at their first national rally in St. Louis last September, but he decided to do nothing. At the St. Louis rally Charles Boynton, retired assistant bishop of New York City, privately pledged to do the honors but withdrew under doctor's orders just two weeks before the Denver ceremony...
...YORK--The Harvard basketball team did not play Columbia here last night at the Lions' showcase arena, Levien Gym. In fact, the Crimson five got no farther than Elsie's Lunch yesterday, although no one at 60 Boylston St. bothered to tell...
...There were 20 tickets left as of yesterday at Out of Town for Monday night's Beanpot final with B.U. If none are left there or at 60 Boylston St., you can always check B.C. and Northeastern. The injury-prone Crimson must be plenty wary of the nasty Terriers, who forced three B.C. players to be carried off the ice during Monday's donnybrook...