Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dodge Main made Hamtramck. Thousands of Polish families, following a trail of promises, booked passage on the ship to Montreal and came on by boat or rail to Detroit to dominate the plant's work force. "There was a time when, if your name didn't end in 'ski,' you couldn't get in here," says one plant official. Old World bakeries and sausage shops sprang up. Bars and beer gardens huddled around the giant factory to wet a thousand throats at shift change...
Privately, some Canadian officials said they were "extremely upset" that the story of the escape had been broken by Jean Pelletier, a Washington correspondent for Montreal's La Presse and son of Canada's ambassador to France. Like a number of newsmen, including correspondents and editors of TIME, Pelletier had long been aware that the six had been hidden in Tehran and had kept the secret. When Pelletier learned that the Americans were out of Tehran, he felt the news would quickly become public, and his newspaper decided to break the story. This destroyed a Canada...
...with sex. Politics has always been a glowing, insistent presence in the Games, and in some ways their reason for being. Nations continue to compete hungrily for the right to host the Games even though they know that the host always loses millions of dollars in the process. Montreal was nearly bankrupted by the $1.27 billion cost of the 1976 Olympics. The political gains-prestige, legitimacy, image-are frequently judged to be worth the monetary loss. In 1968, Mexico City had the distinction of being the first Third World country to stage the Olympics. Tokyo's 1964 Games were...
...Hungarians stayed in the Games, and beat the Soviets in a water polo championship that left the pool streaked with the players' blood. In 1976, 28 African nations stayed away from the Montreal Games to protest New Zealand's rugby tour of South Africa. American Sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their gloved fists in black power salutes at the 1968 Games...
...construction, and despite the fact that some 50,000 people are expected to swarm into Lake Placid during every day of competition, the 1980 Games involved no large-scale dislocation of the town's citizens, as happened in Montreal during the 1976 Summer Games. To be sure, a certain amount of displacement has occurred. A young clerk for the Lake Placid Organizing Committee was bumped from her $300-a-month apartment so that the landlord could rent it during February to wealthy snow bunnies for $4,000. Another story making the rounds has houses being purchased...