Word: montreal
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...MONTREAL, Quebec, April 8--Liberal leader Lester B. Pearson has emerged as Canada's next Prime Minister on the basis of today's nationwide elections. As of 1130 p.m. he did not have a working majority, but this party had won or was leading 128 ridings. The majority figure...
...province of Quebec, Social Credit representation was cut down from 26 seats to 18. The Conservatives also lost ground, dropping from 14 to seven seats. The Liberals added 15 representatives to their previous total of 35. The island of Montreal gave 21 of 22 seats to the Liberals, losing only one to P.C. incumbent Georges Valade. Social Credit made no inroads on the island, the largest city in Canada...
Hilton Hotels International, which already operates 13 hotels in 11 foreign countries, will open up a new 30-story, $22 million London Hilton in a fortnight. And it will launch six more hotels abroad this year-in Athens, Hong Kong, Montreal, Rome, Rotterdam, and Tokyo. Intercontinental Hotels, a subsidiary of Pan American, plans to add nine new hotels to its present 14 before year's end. They will be in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Frankfurt, Vienna, Geneva, Singapore, Hong Kong, and at Abidjan on the Ivory Coast...
...Pension, Ah-ha!" On TV and at rallies, Caouette sticks to the stomach and the pocketbook. "When I'm up there," he says, "and I talk about the people in Montreal who had to dig in garbage pails for chicken last Christmas, I really feel their hunger. I feel their misery. I identify." He vaguely blames the "big interests," meaning the English-speaking people who rule Canada. "Have you ever heard of them lacking money to build a cannon? No. But family allowances, old-age pensions, money for the blind, ah-ha! That's another matter...
Before election day, Caouette will have carried his message to 74 of Quebec's 75 ridings-all but icebound lies de la Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. And for the rally that will climax his campaign, he has rented the 13,728-seat Montreal Forum, home ice for the Canadiens hockey team. "It won't be Imperial Esso hockey night in Canada," cries Caouette. "It will be the night of national liberation...