Word: montreal
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...diplomat, Zbig−as he is known to his colleagues−spent much of his childhood outside Poland. During the war years, the family lived in Montreal, where the senior Brzezinski served as Polish consul general, and remained there after the Communists took over Poland in 1945. A graduate of Montreal's McGill University, Zbig earned his doctorate in government at Harvard, then taught political science there from 1953 to 1960. In the meantime, he became a U.S. citizen and married Emilie ("Muska") Benes, grandniece of Eduard Benes, the Czechoslovak President who was forced out of office after...
Back in Rome after moviemaking in Montreal, Actress Sophia Loren, 42, has a new role as a grandma−or at least a step-grandmother to husband Carlo Ponti's first grandchild. Loren's work in Montreal involved family matters of a different kind. In Angela, a modern version of the Greek tragedy Oedipus at Colonus, she plays a restaurant waitress who loses her infant son to Mafia kidnapers. Years later, the long-lost lad, played by Steve Railsback, 30, accidentally meets up with Mom and, presto, some Oedipal complexities develop. Sophia can only hope she will avoid...
Honking auto convoys coursed through the streets of Montreal last week, blaring a cacophonous chorus of triumph. At the city's temple of ice hockey, the Forum, 16,000 fans had louder cheers for news of the election results than for goals scored by their beloved Canadiens. At Paul Sauvé Arena in the city's Francophone North End, 6,000 supporters of the Parti Québécois wept, cheered and sang "Tomorrow belongs to us ..." as Péquiste Party Leader René Lévesque, 54, appeared to claim victory. In an extraordinary election...
...campaigning singlemindedly against the threat of l'indépendance represented by Lévesque and the Parti Québécois. This time Lévesque and his followers took 41% of the vote and 69 legislature seats, including Bourassa's own riding in Montreal. The Liberals, with 34% of the vote, were reduced to a humiliating 28 seats, partly because the anti-Péquiste vote was split with the once dormant Union Nationale, a conservative, largely rural party that captured eleven seats in the House...
...Reneé the Red" in conservative, English-speaking business circles by pushing through a controversial nationalization of Quebec's hydroelectric industry. One friend with whom Lévesque spent many heated nights discussing the hydro scheme was Pierre Elliott Trudeau, then a law professor at the University of Montreal...