Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tonight's game is the Bruins' last encounter with the Hawks before the Stanley Cup playoffs two weeks from now. They will meet New York for the last time here in Boston on March 28 and then go to Montreal on the 30th for their last game with the league leading Canadians...
...some $300 million, many times the nor mal demand. Because the fortunes of sterling and the dollar are closely linked, that was enough to drive the value of the pound down to a record low of $2.392, despite efforts by the Bank of England to prop it up. (In Montreal, quotations in 9210 Canadian dollars registered a comparable price.) Gold sales also soared in Paris, Zurich and Frankfurt. Everywhere, buyers were betting that the U.S. would be forced to raise the price of gold - a step tantamount to devaluing the dollar. Though the Treasury and White House Press Secretary George...
...next afternoon, using the rugby rules, the two teams played to a scoreless standoff. Boastful spectators attributed Harvard's successful adaptation to rugby to "Yankee ingenuity and aptitude." In a rematch the following year in Montreal, the Harvard team, sporting flashy new uniforms, trounced McGill soundly at the Canadians' own game...
...Coast Guard radio station at Pungo, Va., picked up a nervous call. Speaking in broken English, the caller said that he was aboard the 26 de Julio, a small (943 tons) Cuban cargo vessel that normally hauls freight and cattle between Havana and Montreal. Would the Coast Guard al low the ship to put in to port at Norfolk "to discharge people who are seek ing political asylum...
Inversions. Richler's ploy is to turn the liberal Jewish character inside out, making Mortimer an inversion of the author's own experiences as a youth in Montreal's intensively competitive Jewish enclave. Says Richler: "Our mothers read us stories from magazines about astigmatic 14-year-olds who had already graduated from Harvard. And reading Tip Top Comics or listening to The Green Hornet on the radio was as good as asking for a whack on the head-sometimes administered with a rolledup copy of the Jewish Eagle, as if that in itself would be nourishing...