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...Southeastern chain of restaurants and gas stations. It bought Travelers Express Co., the U.S.'s second largest money-order firm (after American Express) in 1965, last year set up an $85 million computer-renting subsidiary. Greyhound is even in bus building, set up Motor Coach Industries Ltd. in Winnipeg, Canada, three years ago, after the Justice Department beefed about Greyhound's once heavy reliance on General Motors...
...musing on the long reign of Queen Victoria and her death in 1901. The reader may well say "gadzooks" about the first volume of the life of Churchill by his son Randolph, which goes back even farther. Churchill, then 26, missed Queen Victoria's funeral (he was in Winnipeg winding up a profitable lecture tour); there would not be a greater one in London until his own death 64 years later...
...still farther into the wilderness of scrub pines and countless lakes, but shows the new face of the push north. Its curving streets of ranch homes might have been lifted from the split-level suburbia of Cleveland or Chicago and deposited as they are 476 miles north of Winnipeg. On the Nelson River, 579 miles northeast of Winnipeg, construction was started this summer on a $325 million power project, as well as a new $100 million forest industry complex...
...Japanese garden in Lethbridge, Alta., that expects to get a school of royal carp from Emperor Hirohito's moat. Athletically, Canada will be host to no fewer than 17 international competitions, from snowshoeing (in Ottawa) to water skiing (in Sherbrooke, Que.) to the Pan American games in Winnipeg...
...sale raised Russia's total 1965 order for Canadian wheat to 222 mil lion bu., all of which will be delivered between now and August 1966. At a press conference in Winnipeg, Trade Minister Mitchell Sharp and William McNamara, head of the Canadian