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Among the school's unusual fiscal practices that have surfaced, part of a $1.4 million federal grant for a University of Massachusetts-sponsored teacher-training program in Brooklyn seems to have been spent on "academic retreats" in Montreal hotels. Two checks were made out to "consultants" who apparently did not exist. The checks had been cashed by Cleo Abraham, an assistant professor, who subsequently handed in his resignation...
...meter gold medal in the 1968 Olympics, Fellow Countryman Ben Jipcho is history's second fastest miler, and Ugandan John Akii-bua holds the world record in the 400-meter hurdles. Now a veritable army of runners from East Africa is readying for the Montreal Olympics next year...
...Kill does not stop at artificial boundary lines. It has just made its first international hit. As Canadian Newscaster Keith Morrison was reading the headlines one morning last month in Montreal on a Today-style TV program carried live across Canada, Weiner splatted a whipped-cream pie across his face. Morrison was stunned, but quickly recovered and wiped the debris from his face; the creaming was rebroadcast on another nationally televised program a few days later...
These days Lefkowitz is preparing for the Montreal International Competition which takes place in late spring. "Everybody enters it," he said, "It's usually won by some Russian. I don't think I'll win anything. I mean, I know I won't. But it's good experience performing." He would like to spend his life performing and teaching. His favorite composers are Bach, Beethoven and Brahms--"deep intellectual composers,"--but he is working on pieces by 19th century composers now, "I've got to try out different styles," he said. "If you're going to put on a show...
...Finie and King of Hearts, but found that the Continent had its drawbacks. "Life there is just too difficult to cope with," she said. This month Genevieve must go to Italy to film Brian de Palma's Deja Vu, but she will come home to Malibu not Montreal. As she explained: "Scripts don't just flutter down with the snowflakes in Montreal...