Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Willie Mays bid adieu to baseball last night as the Mets honored him with pregame ceremonies and a 2-1 victory over the Montreal Expos. The win boosted the Mets' lead in the wild National League East race to a game and a half over the sagging Pittsburgh Pirates...
...Pittsburgh Pirates got a shutout pitching performance from Nelson Briles to salvage a doubleheader split with the Montreal Expos and remain a half game behind the Mets, who were idle yesterday...
...Montreal blew what was probably its last chance to stay in contention as the Pirates scored a 3-0 victory paced by Willie Stargell's 43rd homer. In the first game of the twinighter played before a standing room only crowd in Montreal the Expos gave their fans something to cheer about as they chased Pittsburgh starter Bob Moose for a 5-4 victory. Steve Renko got his 15th win against 11 losses...
Texans don't seem to mind, however. Residents are convinced that DFW will transform the area into the economic anchor of Middle America. They shrug off charges that extra acreage was bought so they could call their airport the world's biggest and ignore the fact that Montreal is building a bigger one. Theirs is the biggest now. Says former Dallas Mayor Erik Jonsson, who helped bring the two cities together in the first place: "A wholly different world will be opening...
...also drawn fire from some Canadians. Says Allan Aikens, senior partner of the Montreal investment firm Lafferty, Harwood and Co.: "I'm skeptical of the ability of a government-controlled corporation to participate effectively in mineral activity." Complained Gerald Baldwin, House leader of the opposition Conservative Party: "This is public money they're playing around with. It was never the purpose to do this sort of thing." Baldwin is wrong. The C.D.C. was designed "to make equity investments either in new or existing companies...