Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israeli conflict, but also in "the sickness of American society," in the Viet Nam war and even in the Nigeria-Biafra conflict. "It did not matter if Senator Kennedy's assailant was first believed to be a Mexican, and then a Cuban and then an Arab," said the Montreal Star, adding: "The fact remains that in Harlem and Watts and every other Negro community . . . 'they' [assassins] exist as perpetual enemies, while the one figure who might have provided hope was removed forcibly from the arena." Perhaps the farthest reach came from Italian Author Raoul Romoli-Venturi (Encounter...
...manufactured by Canadian subsidiaries of U.S. automakers, are indistinguishable from American models. Chrysler makes Plymouths and Dodges in its plant in Windsor, Ont., and ships them all over the U.S. Midwest. General Motors assembles Chevrolets at a new plant at Íle Sainte Thérèse, near Montreal, for sale in New England. Mercurys manufactured in Ford's Oakville plant near Toronto are sold in New York. Even smaller American Motors gets into the act, builds cars at Brampton, Ont., for the U.S. market...
...National League decided to go international; it expanded to twelve teams - by adding new franchises in Montreal and San Diego - while retaining its traditional monolithic league structure and 1 62-game schedule. The American League, on the other hand, decided to go intramural. It split into two six-team divisions, with each team scheduled to play 156 games (90 games against its own division, 66 against the other) and the divisional champions left to battle for the pennant in a best-of-five play-off before the World Series...
...eleven years as the Dodgers' general manager. Dallas and Fort Worth were turned down for a franchise simply because Roy M. Hofheinz, owner of the Houston Astros, did not want to give up his radio and television baseball monopoly in the Southwest. Instead, the team will go to Montreal, which despite its 2,436,000 population failed in the past to support even a minor-league club...
...that it was all that easy last week against the Blues, an expansion team that hardly figured to belong on the same ice with the polished Canadiens. St. Louis twice took Montreal into sudden-death overtime. All four games were decided by one goal. In the deciding game, Montreal had to battle back from a 2-1 deficit, and it took a goal by J. C. Tremblay with 8 min. 20 sec. left to give the Canadiens a 3-2 victory...