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...might even find their way to La Tour Eiffel, a blue-painted, mirrored and muraled restaurant of Montreal's sophisticates. It was officially opened only a few weeks ago by what many Montrealers consider their best attraction, and their most entertaining floor show: Mayor Camillien Houde (rhymes with comedian good...
Less important to tourists but more so for Camillien Houde were other changes. His strident French-Canadian nationalism, with its emphasis on "racism," big families and close ties of church and state, seemed to have lost some of its appeal. Nevertheless, he joined the Bloc Populaire, a catch-all of all nationalistic slogans, to extend his power beyond Montreal. In two election tests, the second last month, the Bloc was soundly trounced. For the time being, at least, the Bloc was a dead political duck...
...Sights. Camillien Houde had to adjust his ideas to a new generation of French Canadians. But to tourists' eyes, at least, the country of the seigneurs still looked the same...
Last week, less than a month after stormy Camillien Houde was elected mayor of Montreal, came a move to oust him from his $10,000-a-year job. One Léo Doré, identified only as a truck driver and obviously acting for someone else, filed a petition in superior court to have Mayor Houde's election annulled...
QUEBEC Houde's Hope When the doors of Montreal's Hôtel de Ville were opened one morning last week, rotund Camillien Houde was waiting outside. The former Mayor of Montreal marched briskly to the city clerk's office, filed again as candidate for Mayor. After four years' internment for having advised Canadians not to register for the draft (TIME, Aug. 28), Camillien, free again, was seeking his old $10,000-a-year...