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...kibbutzim are either catering to tourists or running factories. Kibbutz hotels and restaurants in 1971 brought in only $5,000,000. But revenues from the kibbutz factories were $300 million, roughly 7% of Israel's total industrial production. At a symposium for factory managers last month, Winnipeg-born Dan Karmon, of the 212-member Kibbutz Industries Association, boasted that in the next five years revenues would more than double to $700 million. Already the kibbutz factories account for 35% of Israel's total plastics production, and in the past four years output has risen 30% annually. Factories that...
VINOD K. BANSAL, M.D. Winnipeg, Manitoba
...Congo-as well as Jerome Rakotomalala in the nearby island republic of Malagasy. Presbyterian Scotland got its first resident cardinal in four centuries, Archbishop Gordon Gray of St. Andrews and Edinburgh. And Western Canada was given its first cardinal ever-popular, liberal George Bernard Flahiff, 63, Bishop of Winnipeg...
...mile Great Northern Railway, the 6,747-mile Northern Pacific, the 8,538-mile Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the 922-mile Spokane, Portland & Seattle. The resulting 26,509-mile system, including a few subsidiaries, would serve 17 states and two Canadian provinces, from Chicago to Vancouver, from Galveston to Winnipeg. The merged northern lines, to be known as the Burlington Northern Inc., would rank third among U.S. railroads (after the Penn Central and the Southern Pacific), with 1967 revenues of $875 million...
...Chrysler's North American operations. The lines discontinued in Windsor are now made entirely in the U.S., but are sold both on the Canadian and American markets. A Canadian-make Polara or Fury, meanwhile, is just as apt to wind up with an owner in Cleveland as in Winnipeg...