Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, evidence of foul play mounted. The Air India flight, whose final ) destination was Bombay, had stopped in Montreal to pick up passengers. While it was taking on baggage there, dogs trained to sniff out explosives began barking. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police subsequently confiscated three "suspicious" pieces of luggage after electronic scanners detected metal inside the bags. The luggage was examined, but no explosives were found...
...have been designed to go off during the stop at London, where there is a large international press corps. The motives for the explosion in Japan were more mysterious; again, no one immediately claimed responsibility. As this week began, the International Air Transport Association called an emergency meeting in Montreal. Meanwhile, the international police organization Interpol was reportedly investigating both disasters and possible links between them...
...child's interest in paper planes may lead to a career in aerospace, and even to breakthroughs in design. A case in point was Robert C. Manson, who grew obsessed with paper planes as a schoolboy and now, at 26, is a design engineer for Pratt & Whitney in Montreal. He explained: "What makes a paper plane fly well, the lift and balance and aerodynamic design, is what makes a real plane fly well. The principles are the same...
...project, tougher than everybody else, were just as scared out in the woods as anybody else," she says. "It's really nice to just see them treating each other like people." The program, which was financed by PBH, culminated with an outing to Vermont and a tour of Montreal...
Linnet arrives in Montreal during World War II, alone and with $5 in her purse. As she describes her prospects, "My only commercial asset was that I knew French, but French was of no professional use to anyone in Canada then -- not even to French Canadians; one might as well have been fluent in Pushtu." Still, she perseveres, ultimately finds a job on a local newspaper and sets out to become a writer, much as the author herself did in the late 1940s. Such determination and pluck are rare among Gallant's outcast characters. When the girl's native country...