Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nobody seems to know quite what to expect-unless it's the unexpected," Montreal Gazette Columnist Dink Carroll wrote last month, when action in the expanded league got under way. Unexpected is certainly the word for what has happened since. The Chicago Black Hawks, who won the N.H.L. race by 17 points last year, have managed only three victories in twelve games this year, rank dead last in the East Division. Next, there is the curious collapse of Roger Crozier, the talented young (25) Detroit Red Wings goalie, who only three seasons ago was the N.H.L.'s Rookie...
...wind grew more intense, fewer and fewer people were coming to the polling place. This gave the writer-turned-poll worker more cause to worry about his candidate's chances but also more time to talk. "Right now, the two most exciting cities in North America are Toronto and Montreal. Both are vibrant; they're filled with young creative and intelligent people. They're stimulating cities in which to live--ideas get tossed around; ideas get tried...
...roar of cannons and fire works bursting in air, Montreal's Expo 67, last week closed down the turnstiles to what had been, by almost all measures, the most successful world's fair in history. In the surge of last-day crowds, souvenir hunters made off with a guitar autographed by the Beach Boys from the U.S. pavilion and a nativity crib from the West German pavilion. But no amount of petty vandalism could sully Expo's singular triumph: in just six months the fair had racked up a total attendance of 50 million*-20 million more...
Despite its success, Expo may still wind up with a $250 million deficit. But as far as Montreal and Canada are concerned, it was worth it. For the fair leaves behind a splendid legacy of international good will and national pride-not to mention an embarrassment of riches. Thirty-six nations have already agreed to hand over their pavilions to Montreal, and Mayor Jean Drapeau, the originator of Expo, is casting about for ways to make the island sites into a permanent summertime exhibit and tourist attraction. Among his envisioned lures: Buckminster Fuller's U.S. geodesic dome, converted into...
...drama and one another, turned toward the audience, and simply belted out their best. Frequently it was more than good enough. Drenched by the robust melodiousness of Soprano Elena Suliotis and Basso Nicolai Ghiaurov in Nabucco, and of Tenor Carlo Bergonzi and Mezzo Soprano Fiorenza Cossotto in Trovatore, the Montreal audiences hardly seemed to notice anything missing elsewhere...