Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congratulations to Olympics Organizer Peter Ueberroth for his sound management ideas [Oct. 17]. It is too bad Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau did not have such creative talent when he was host to the 1976 Olympics. I, my children and even my grandchildren will be paying for those Games for years to come...
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...game took shape on a rainy Saturday afternoon in Montreal in 1979 when two Canadian journalists, Chris Haney and Scott Abbott, challenged each other to a game of Scrabble. Then, Haney recalls, a light bulb went on over his head: "Why don't we invent a game?" Less than an hour later they had designed the basic structure. Devising the questions, however, took much obsessive poring over almanacs, encyclopedias and old newspapers. After nearly two years of research, the group, which included Haney's brother John, a retired hockey player, settled on 6,000 queries...