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...somewhat labyrinthian Trudeau. A practicing Roman Catholic, he often goes on formal church retreats. He is interested in Eastern religions, notably Buddhism, that are "religions of love rather than ethics or morals or obligation or principle." Whenever he can, he goes off to his prefabricated chalet in the Laurentian Mountains where "I replenish my emotions, find my inner directives." With his colleagues, Trudeau is a man of little small talk. He can be moody and, when dealing with lesser intellects, even irritable to the point of arrogance. When pursuing a political goal, he can be fierce, even ruthless...
...power to extradite Canadian citizens for such an offense. But in 1952 the two countries signed an extradition treaty to cover stock frauds. In Detroit last week, marking the first use of the treaty, a U.S. federal grand jury indicted two Montreal brokerage houses, T. M. Parker, Inc. and Laurentian Securities, Inc., and 14 of their salesmen on charges of fraudulent stock sales. Charged the indictment: a year ago the group bilked U.S. citizens of some $300,000 in only ten weeks...
...CRIMSON story barely hinted at the effect of this result. But doubling the size of the known universe the expansion is doubled. Now by computing backwards, the age of the universe becomes about six billion year, somewhat more in line with geological results from radioactivity of rocks in the Laurentian Shield...
Climatic shifts offer hope for such people, Maciver explains. For instance, the inhabitants of the Laurentian hills are now "superstitious and disease ridden" because their climate is too cold...
Also, the Laurentian range extending from Tremblant three hours south to Montreal offers many closely connected resorts like Saint Marguerite, with a T-bar lift and the luxurious Chalet Cochaud, Saint Adole, and Saint Adole both with rope tows. None have the extensiveness of facilities or size of hills that many New England resorts possess, claim Americans...