Word: montreal
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...Edge. In his first speeches, De Gaulle started off cautiously, but he kept talking about French Canadians as a people that must "take its destiny in its own hands." He led crowds in singing the Marseillaise and did not seem displeased when hecklers booed the Canadian national anthem. At Montreal's city hall, he responded before a large, excited audience: "I find myself in an atmosphere the same as that of the liberation of Paris." A few moments later, he shouted "Vive le Quebec libre," the notorious cry of Quebec separatists...
Thousands of angry letters and telephone calls poured into government offices-many from French Canadians. After all, as the last provincial elections showed, less than 10% of Quebec's population actually support the separatists. "General de Gaulle's tour of Quebec," fumed the Montreal Gazette, "has been like that of a man in a world of fantasy. He has not only dimmed his own reputation; he has raised new doubts throughout the world about his aims and methods." Montreal's Mayor Jean Drapeau offered his own polite rebuke. "We are attached to this immense country," he said...
...first impression of Montreal Expo-goers is one of gigantic exhibition structures, lofty space domes and minirails. But as visitors are discovering in increasing numbers as the summer wears on, the 1,000-acre site is also studded with dozens of delightful surprises in the form of 20th century sculpture, ranging from Aristide Maillol's 1908 Desire to a 1967 blue, geometric Dyad by Saskatchewan's Robert Murray. And while most of the Expo sculpture executed in the 1960s would not raise an eyebrow at Venice or in a far-out Manhattan gallery, it is provoking plenty...
...move the German Chancellor to exclaim: "Whether you agree with him or not, what a man!" Next week Canada will be exposed to the treatment. On a five-day visit, the general will float grandly up the Saint Lawrence River on the French cruiser Colbert, motor from Quebec to Montreal, greeting thousands of French Canadians along the way, then look over Expo 67. Only afterward, despite the Canadian governments entreaties, will he condescend to touch down at the English-speaking capital of Ottawa...
...largest in the group is TIME Canada, which sells 350,000 copies a week, an increase of 75% in the last decade. Printed in Montreal, it offers the full editorial content of TIME U.S., plus four pages of Canadian news written and edited by a Canadian staff. Our other international editions, each with its own regional advertising areas, are: Atlantic, printed in Paris; Latin America, printed in Atlanta but soon to move to Panama; Asia, in Tokyo; South Pacific, in Melbourne and Auckland. They are produced with foreign ads by photographing the text of the U.S. edition and flying...