Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Canada has had much entertainment lately - the glowing centennial of its independence, the excellent Montreal Expo, the amusing visit from Charles de Gaulle - its politics have been rather dreary. The Liberal government under Lester Pearson has gone quietly on its way, strengthening relations between French-and English-speaking Canada, expanding foreign trade, and boosting an economy that has been growing 6% a year...
Buffalo Grass. All these demands, but especially the demands of nature, appealed to I. M. Pei. As the designer of Manhattan's Kips Bay Plaza and Montreal's Place Ville-Marie, Pei had coped with urban environments but never with a rugged country site. The first designs that he and his associates prepared used a conventional big-city, floor-by-floor structure. All were dwarfed by the mountain. Then Pei took a trip to Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park, saw how Indian pueblo dwellers built blocklike homes that melded harmoniously with their mountainside surroundings...
...Atlantic. So naturally, the General ordered a "considerable increase" in French aid to Quebec. It would not take much to make any increase considerable, since the most visible signs of French aid so far have been an exchange of some 60 schoolteachers and a technical assist in building Montreal's rubber-tired subway. What France desires, said De Gaulle, is "to help the French of Canada to maintain and develop their personality." That they need such help, said French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville last week, is beyond question. Until De Gaulle's visit to Quebec, purred...
...Greek consulate described it as a brief, unofficial visit to New York "without fanfare or publicity" by King Constantine, 27, and Queen Anne-Marie, 21, prior to more formal stops in Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec, Montreal and finally Washington to confer with President Johnson. But nothing ever happens without fanfare or publicity when Actress Melina Mercouri gets involved. The Greek star, relieved of her citizenship and property because of her criticism of Greece's military junta, learned that the royal couple planned to lunch with Secretary-General U Thant. Planting herself like an avenging Athena in front...
...repeated bursts of country-style music punctuating the bandits' grisly ventures, and a sentimental interlude with Bonnie's old Maw photographed through a hazy filter, aim at irony and miss by a mile. And this, if you please, was the U.S. entry in this year's Montreal Film Festival...