January 9, 1978

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January 9, 1978

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The heirs apparent
The Class Of '78

The heirs apparent

By ANGELA FERRANTE, ROY MacGREGOR18 min
Interview

Interview

The U.S.A.
Closeup/Politics

The U.S.A.

By Walter Stewart12 min
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The heirs apparent 2829
The Class Of '78

The heirs apparent

Presenting the Canadians we’ll soon be talking about By ANGELA FERRANTE, ROY MacGREGOR18 min
Interview 45

Interview

With Dr. Christiaan Barnard
The U.S.A. 2223
Closeup/Politics

The U.S.A.

A critical look at Jimmy Carter's first year By Walter Stewart12 min
Springtime for Trudeau? 1819
Canada

Springtime for Trudeau?

In Ottawa over Christmas, a reporter contemplating his summer vacation expressed his concern to a cabinet minister that a federal election might interfere with his plans. The minister told him not to worry: the election will have come and gone by summer. By IAN URQUHART8 min
Is this any way to run a railroad? The courts will decide 4445
Business

Is this any way to run a railroad? The courts will decide

Few Canadians have heard of the Ontario and Quebec Railway Company, even though, for the past 90 years or so, many if not most of the people traveling by train in the country’s busiest transportation corridor—between Montreal and Windsor, Ont.—have been traveling on the O & Q. By ALAST AIR DOW7 min
History appears to be ready to repeat itself—and that’s just fine 4647
Sports

History appears to be ready to repeat itself—and that’s just fine

Even now, as the team skates on for the warm-up, there are not a half-dozen spectators in the grizzled old Memorial Arena in Waterloo, Ontario. One has an arrow through his head. One a false beard. Another is wearing huge plastic Vulcan ears. By ROY MacGREGOR7 min
Letters 1213

Letters

Not exactly one of a kind
The pursuit of the Instant Mellow 5051
Lifestyles

The pursuit of the Instant Mellow

Sunday night was sheet night. An Air Canada pilot, clad only in a tiny black swimsuit, was lying on a table in the middle of the hotel dance floor, his body smothered in whipped cream. Beside him, microphone in hand, was a barefoot chef with a raccoon tail hanging out of his hip pocket. By CHERYL HAWKES5 min
What’s on the tube tonight, dear? Everything 5455
Science

What’s on the tube tonight, dear? Everything

Whatever happened to tomorrow? It should have arrived ages ago, that gleaming, gimmicky utopia of videophones, moving sidewalks and jet ports on every roof. Back in the 1950s and 1960s optimists assured us such wonders were imminent. We’re still waiting. By ALLAN BAILEY4 min
What secessionists don’t understand is that even if they win, they lose 1011
The Referendum Debate

What secessionists don’t understand is that even if they win, they lose

It will be ironic, to say the least, if the separatist cause proves to undermine rather than enhance the legitimate aspirations of French Canadians. Yet that is precisely what could happen if Quebec should decide to go its own way. Within Canada it may not just be the French-Canadian culture and language that are at stake. By John Crispo4 min
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