Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started as a standard McNamara-style speech: loaded with projections, statistics, computerized comparisons. But as the Secretary of Defense plunged deeper into his oration, the 600 members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, meeting in Montreal, began to realize that this was a different speech by a different Robert Strange McNamara. Its message not only had little to do with military hardware, but, even more surprising, was fundamentally concerned with the suffering majority of mankind-a subject that has not conspicuously engaged the Secretary's attention or exactly matched his image during his five years at the Pentagon...
...lost $60 million on 1965 passenger service, it has now ordered five of the turbotrains developed by the U.S.'s United Aircraft Corp. Even without roadbed improvements, these lightweight, low-slung, turbojet-powered whizbangs should be able to clip nearly an hour off the present five-hour Montreal-Toronto...
Though the U.S. Department of Commerce plans to test a pair of turbotrains between Boston and Providence starting next January, Canadian National will be the first road to put them into regular service. To be built by United Aircraft's Canadian subsidiary and the Montreal Locomotive Works, the first of the seven-car turbotrains should be on the tracks in time for Canada's Centennial next April...
...Canadian National's reckoning, on a downtown-to-downtown basis the turbotrains should approach the time-including traveling to and from airports-that the Montreal-Toronto trip takes by propjet Viscount. In fact, the ride will be somewhat similar: passengers will hear a faint engine whine, get free airline-style meals, sit in aluminum coaches slightly pressurized to keep out dust and dampen track noise. A pendular suspension system tilts the car inward on curves, thus eliminating the lurches of ordinary trains and enabling the train to hit 110 m.p.h. on existing tracks, and eventually 160 m.p.h. on improved...
...Lady of Distinction." Sévigny himself was no help to Diefenbaker's cause. He never denied having had a "physical relationship" with Gerda, but insisted that she was a "lady of distinction" who was "welcomed in Montreal's select circles." As far as his own friendship was concerned, there was a platonic all-night visit to her Montreal apartment as late as November 1960, during which, he said, he did nothing more indiscreet than take a nap in a chair...