Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Romper Room is something unique in television among shows of any kind. It is seen in Anchorage, Bismarck, Green Bay, Montreal, New York, Dallas, Albany, Peoria, Boston, Phoenix-in 94 cities at present with 25 more to be added this fall in Japan, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Scotland; yet there is a different teacher with differ ent children on the air each day in every city where the show is seen. It is the only TV program that is, in TV parlance, syndicated live...
...faint it sounds like angels singing-and that's hell to work with," says an unhappy listener at the Muzakized Ford plant in Dearborn. "It is pallid pap that will cause all our musical teeth to fall out," says Helmut Blume, acting dean of music at Montreal's McGill University. But in all their countless installations, background music hustlers claim to get complaints only from old men in green eyeshades and sleeve garters. "The nut who complains about music is the same one who bitches about the office being too hot or too cold and a thousand other...
...temperature soared over 90° in Montreal last week, the 500 delegates and visitors to the fourth Faith and Or der Conference met for their general sessions in the ovenlike atmosphere of McGill University's metal-covered winter stadium. Delegates called the meetings "chats under a hot tin roof...
...dominated, than ever. Among representatives of 138 of the World Council's 201 mem ber churches was the first full dele gation of Orthodox theologians: there were 51 of them, including eight from Russia. Also present were 20 Roman Catholic observers-including five appointed by the Vatican-and Montreal's Paul-Emile Cardinal Leger delivered one of the major addresses...
...most of Hilton's hotels abroad became centers of controversy, sometimes discreetly abetted by rivals. The Communists on Rome's city council battled Hilton for 2½ years before he got a permit; Londoners objected to the Hilton's height and its proximity to Buckingham Palace; Montreal's French Canadians fought for a French name for the Queen Elizabeth. Openings have often been ill-starred; Hong Kong's opening last month was marred by a water shortage, and the death of Pope John canceled elaborate plans for opening festivities in Rome...