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Harvard now has five games left, starting with tonight's rematch against the Montreal Express from Cornell. Should Providence lose one of its last two games, the Crimson would need to take only three of its last five contests...
...seven times with Vartanian, with other Russians involved in arranging the rendezvous; some provided transportation, while others posted cryptic signals. One method was to stick tapes to a pillar in an Ottawa shopping center. According to written instructions given the Mountie, "Vertical position of tape-operation takes place in Montreal. Horizontal position-operation takes place in Ottawa. Yellow color-call for the regular meeting. Black color-call for instant meeting...
...pushed through one of the most important measures of that period: nationalization of the province's private electrical utilities into Hydro-Quebec (current assets: $6.5 billion). At the time Lévesque was labeled "René the Red" for his advocacy of the scheme. He was twitted by Trudeau, then a Montreal law professor, for insisting on a full takeover of the utilities. Partial takeover was enough, said Trudeau; spending public funds to own more than that was an expensive currying of nationalist pride. Lévesque was a strong Quebec nationalist even then. Said he in 1963: "I am first a Quebecois...
Trudeau took the opposite tack for solving Quebec's problems; he sought to change English Canada from within. Convinced of the need to fight rising separatism, he entered national politics in 1965 as a Liberal member of Parliament from Mount Royal in Montreal. Three years later, after serving as Canada's Justice Minister and Attorney-General, he succeeded the late Lester ("Mike") Pearson as Prime Minister. During Trudeau's first election campaign, young girls?including his future wife?flung themselves at him. Businessmen asked for his autograph. Crowds gathered wherever he went. Said Trudeau in those palmy days: "However Canadians...
...concerned by the flight of business from Montreal...