Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like to drive. His great pleasure, it seemed, was to stop strangers in the streets, in buses, in soda fountains, where he would talk understandingly about their problems without letting on that he was a Congressman. He took no vacations outside of a weekend or two in Montreal, where he liked to walk around the older parts of town chatting with janitors. Congressman Lane liked everybody-although he was no backslapper, no enthusiastic pal. "The only person I recall him not liking," a friend said, "was Vito Marcantonio, and he would even chat with...
Canadian businessmen welcome U.S. investment in Canada, but they voice one frequent complaint: too often Canadian subsidiaries of U.S. firms are run as mere branch plants, financed, directed and staffed from the U.S. head office. In Montreal last week a top U.S. businessman noted this sore point, predicted that it would soon be remedied. Said Warren Lee Pierson, chairman of Trans World Airlines, Inc. and president of the International Chamber of Commerce: "I predict that American enterprises here will increasingly welcome investment, technical and managerial cooperation in Canada...
Johannsen grew up on skis in Norway. When he came to Montreal in 1900, he spent as much time talking friends into cross-country runs as he did at his job selling log-loading machines. And almost singlehanded he blazed ski trails through the Laurentians when Montreal skiers were schussing down the slopes of Mount Royal and doing their jumping on what is now Cote-des-Neiges Road, in the heart of the city...
...psychiatry all that it is cracked up to be? Emphatically not, says Montreal Psychiatrist Elliott Emanuel. "In our generation," he writes in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, "some of the biggest names in psychiatry are men whose scientific contributions have been negligible, whose contact with individual patients has been minimal for several years, and whose time is devoted to committees, journalism, and publicity for themselves and their institutions . . . Within the various schools of psychiatry we have much mutual backslapping and back-scratching in spite of intense personal rivalry, while a bland and successful façade is presented...
AIRLINE MERGER between Eastern and Colonial Airlines will finally go through after nearly two years of legal battles. Under the $12 million deal, Eastern will get 13 planes, some 2,700 miles of new routes to Montreal and Bermuda...