Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only those who were inside know exactly what testy Coach Hector ("Toe") Blake, 55, said when he barred the doors of the last-place Montreal Canadiens' dressing room Christmas night. But whatever Toe said, his words worked. The Canadiens won 30 of their remaining 41 games and skated away with the National Hockey League's East Division championship. They then wiped out the Boston Bruins (4 games to 0), the Chicago Black Hawks (4-1), and finally the West Division's St. Louis Blues (4-0) to win their eighth Stanley Cup in 13 years...
...abroad are not, however, so fatalistic; in city after city this week, they protested the military dictatorship. Actress Melina Mercouri, who has made opposition to the junta a second career, flew into London for a demonstration in Trafalgar Square, and similar rallies were scheduled for, among other places, Chicago, Montreal, Melbourne, Stockholm, West Berlin and Rome...
When the Bolshoi Opera crossed the Atlantic last year to Montreal's Expo 67, it lugged along 95 choristers, 48 soloists, 99 instrumentalists, 50 dancers, 127 staff assistants, 193 tons of scenery and five tons of Russian edibles. When Rome's Piccolo Teatro Musicale arrived in Manhattan last week, there was a little less to be seen-a handful of singers and players, one slightly overweight conductor, and a compact bundle of slats, screws and canvas that weighed scarcely more than a ton. But when the slats and canvas were screwed together into a miniature Neapolitan theater...
...Saturday became Canada's fifteenth Prime Minister, is an unconventional man. He drives fast cars and wears sandals into the House of Commons. He has thrown snowballs at Stalin's statue in Red Square, and has been blacklisted by the U.S. State Department for suspected Communist affiliations. As a Montreal professor and journalist, he has spent a good part of the last few years criticizing and ridiculing the same Liberal party which this month chose him as its new leader. And as he assume Canada's highest office, Trudeau's political career is still only two-and-a-half years...
...Bruins lost their playoff series in four straight games to Montreal, the Celtics are within one loss of elimination in the NBA's Eastern finals, and the rain gods conspired yesterday to keep the American League pennant flag off the Fenway Park flagpole...