Word: drapeau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd, augmented by other opportunists, moved through downtown Montreal, burning and looting. Rioters stormed into the swanky Queen Elizabeth Hotel, then moved on to the nearby Windsor Hotel and nearly wrecked Mayor Jean Drapeau's newly opened restaurant. Expensive shops along St. Catherine's Street were hit by looters. On the city's outskirts, burglars went to work; one was shot dead by a doctor in his suburban home...
...home of the top farm team of the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Montreal Royals drew 477,664, eclipsing the gate of at least one major league team that year. Even so, last week's game had all the aura of a new and extraordinary happening. As Mayor Jean Drapeau posed to throw the ball, local photographers shouted to him: "Shoot the puck...
...Montreal and Canada are concerned, it was worth it. For the fair leaves behind a splendid legacy of international good will and national pride-not to mention an embarrassment of riches. Thirty-six nations have already agreed to hand over their pavilions to Montreal, and Mayor Jean Drapeau, the originator of Expo, is casting about for ways to make the island sites into a permanent summertime exhibit and tourist attraction. Among his envisioned lures: Buckminster Fuller's U.S. geodesic dome, converted into the world's largest arboretum and aviary...
...Gaulle's tour of Quebec," fumed the Montreal Gazette, "has been like that of a man in a world of fantasy. He has not only dimmed his own reputation; he has raised new doubts throughout the world about his aims and methods." Montreal's Mayor Jean Drapeau offered his own polite rebuke. "We are attached to this immense country," he said. "Our future lies with this country...
...Expo initiators. From the moment in 1962 when International Exhibitions picked Montreal as the site for '67 (over Moscow, which showed early enthusiasm for an exhibition, then faded from contention), the Canadians began trying to achieve perfection. Principal spark plug was Montreal's dynamic mayor, Jean Drapeau, who buoyantly declared as the first-stage preparations began: "Montreal will not be plagued by lack of imagination...