Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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True enough. To transport armies of Expo goers from Montreal's downtown, a new, $213 million, 16.1-mile subway was tunneled under the city. Trucks roared along the city streets 24 hours a day, dumped thousands of tons of fill from the subway excavation into the river, extended the mud flat that was the He Sainte-Hélène and created the He Notre Dame, which became Expo's major sites. New bridges, a spaghetti pattern of elevated highways, and a theater complex, Place des Arts, were constructed. To provide an upstream system of ice control...
...spent four exhausting years building Expo 67, said quietly: "I get the feeling that it isn't ours any more." But that, as he and millions of Canadians well knew, was the point-and the pride-of the imaginative new world they had built along the riverbanks of Montreal...
...Moon and 2½ Tons. To David G. Carter, director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and a member of the Expo committee that four years ago began drawing up the original list of desired exhibits, the show represents "an ultimate test of the conviction that fine things will always go together." Collecting them became the responsibility of a 15-man international committee of museum officials from eleven countries, who somehow had to persuade governments, museum trustees and individuals to lend ancient, fragile, and often irreplaceable pieces...
...when Besner and his group met the Russian ship Bucyra. They were ominously surrounded by about 30 "very tough-looking" Russian sailors and escorted to the captain's cabin. Recalls Besner: "For hours, we drank toasts in vodka to the Hermitage, the Pushkin Museum, to Montreal, Moscow, Leningrad, Expo, Prime Minister Pearson, peace, understanding, love, and I don't know what else, except that there were a lot of broken glasses and it was deep night when we emerged...
...last week all the works, including the Russians', were up in place in the heat-and humidity-controlled museum, and all hands were sufficiently recovered to toast the new exhibition (in champagne) at its opening reception. Said Montreal Art Professor Edwy Cooke, another member of the committee: "We wanted it to be the most important show ever to cross the ocean, the best arts show ever in North America, and we succeeded. When I look at it, it's just too good to be true...