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Housing prices slumped in Westmount, Mount Royal, Hampstead and Montreal's outlying English-speaking suburbs as homeowners left the province. In the first
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...
When Mary Lyon founded her school for girls in 1837, she avoided the word college because the "benevolent gentlemen" whose support she needed might not approve. Mount Holyoke "seminary" eventually did become a college, and several gentlemen became its president. Now, after 41 years, Holyoke is again to be headed by a woman: Elizabeth Kennan, 39, an associate professor of history and director of medieval and Byzantine studies at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. A Holyoke alumna, Kennan believes that only in women's colleges can women develop the strength to deal with the "crosscutting responsibilities of family life...
...elaborate somewhat, Thomas Stefanian decided 20 years ago that there was no future in the used car business. So he sold "Honest Tom's," his Cambridge dealership, and moved into his new digs on Mount Auburn...