Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each leg and one on an arm. In the first three months on the U.S. market, about 4,000,000 of the $1.29 toys have been sold. The reason cannot be novelty: a similar toy enjoyed brief popularity four years ago. Robert Asch, president of Twinpak Ltd. of Montreal, which makes the Footsee, is sure the game is far older; he got the idea while watching Arab children in Jerusalem playing with like contraptions...
...Canadians are enjoying the Trudeau panache, he is savoring the perquisites of his office. On a 9,780-mile swing through the Arctic last month, he acquired a sealskin parka, drove a motorcycle across the permafrost, and danced with an Eskimo go-go girl. During a recent visit to Montreal, he spent an evening clinking glasses at Man and His World, this year's version of Expo. On a jaunt to see Romeo and Juliet at Stratford, Ont., he was able to command the Prime Minister's private railway car and, naturally, a backstage visit with Juliet...
Uncertain Journey. Trudeau is a fresh phenomenon in Canada's capital, where furled-umbrella stuffiness has long been the norm. He works in an open-necked shirt, often sniffing or fondling a flower on his desk. His Cabinet meetings are as intellectually demanding as his University of Montreal law classes used to be, and during last summer's 90° heat they sometimes ran for more than six hours. One result is that in two months he has set in motion the most sweeping overhaul of Canada's government machinery since...
...Among them: Toronto's multistructure Dominion Centre, a new public library in Washington, apartments in Montreal and a federal center in Chicago...
...Montreal's Leonard Cohen appears to be drifting toward the vortex of popular success. His 1966 novel, Beautiful Losers, a hallucinogenic potion of Iroquois history and art-as-psychosis, has a sizable readership among college students and literate dropouts. Cohen has been documented on an educational television film and interviewed on CBS. His recent move into folk-rock composing and singing has not gone unnoticed either. His song Suzanne, a sweetly eerie and rather self-conscious effort to be both sublimely sacred and sublimely profane, has been recorded by a number of modern minnesingers. His dark brand of sentimentality...