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Harvard is in top form for the match today, and Nayar's game is sharper than it has ever been. In the semifinals of the Canadian National Singles championship at Montreal last weekend. Nayar defeated Sam Howe--who is currently ranked number one in men's singles in the United States...
...Sixty Days were begun with a series of separatist bombings in a wealthy English-speaking district of Montreal, and in an atmosphere of crisis, the new Prime Minister announced the formation of a Royal Commission to investigate French-English relations in Canada. The Commission presented its recommendations a month ago, after more than four years of study. (Pearson's successor will decide on their implementation..) The climax of the Sixty Days came when Pearson's Finance Minister, Walter Gordon, presented a budget so unworkable and confused that its main features were eventually withdrawn altogether...
...unity in a country that has never been united, and at his retirement, this ambition has been frustrated. He saw in the Centennial Year of 1967 a chance to begin a new era in French-English relations. Then General de Gaulle raised the cry "Vive le Quebec libre!" in Montreal, and it was clear once again that the ancient conflict cannot be wished away...
Skull, Neck & Eye. Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings estimates that he has had 500 stitches taken in his face, and it took a delicate operation to save Howe's life after he suffered a fractured skull during the 1950 season. Five years ago, Montreal's Lou Fontinato crashed into the boards with such force that he broke his neck. Fontinato never played again-nor did Detroit's Doug Barkley, who was blinded in the right eye by an opponent's stick in 1966. Last year, players from the six teams that then made...
Living-Room Opera. With his domestic ties severed in Montreal, Mehta has focused his interests in Los Angeles. Besides the Philharmonic and his parents, who moved there in 1964 when his father became a teacher-conductor at U.C.L.A., those interests prominently include, in the words of one of his friends, "girls, girls, girls." A long, tempestuous affair with the "baby Callas" of the opera world, fiery Greek-Canadian Soprano Teresa Stratas, is now stalemated, as much because of conflicts between their careers as between their temperaments. But Mehta has shown no inclination to mope around about it-at least...