Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...money is at stake. Take hockey. At the end of the 70-game season, the league leaders are rewarded with $2,250 per man. Then the first four teams meet in the Stanley Cup playoffs for $5,250 per man-and all bets are off. Last week, the Toronto Maple Leafs walloped the Montreal Canadiens for their fourth Stanley Cup in six years. Only once in that time have they finished No. 1 in regular season play...
This year, hardly anybody outside of Toronto gave the Leafs much chance to make even the playoffs. Coach George ("Punch") Imlach's team was the oldest in the league, held together with stitches, tape and pride. Captain George Armstrong was 36 and quite possibly in his last season; Forward Red Kelly was 39; Defenseman Allan Stanley, 41. Goalie Johnny Bower admitted to 42. And behind him in the nets was Terry Sawchuk, 37, bothered by a chronically bad back and talking about retirement after an illustrious 20-year career that won him four Vezina trophies as hockey...
...what Canada has wrought physically remains its most stunning reason for pride. Montreal, Canada's largest metropolis, with 2,400,000 people, is agleam with new office buildings, hotels, theaters, boutiques (one soon to be opened by Mary Quant) and more miniskirts per square thigh than New York. Toronto (pop. 2,100,000), the Anglo-Saxon's answer to French Montreal, is richer, and rebuilding itself even faster. Both are youthful cities: half of Canada's population is under...
...material field. There is a feeling that Canada's way of handling its problems, both internal and with the U.S., could serve as a model for many lesser-endowed countries struggling toward maturity. "We are always apologizing for not having had any wars or revolutions," says Toronto's Father Michael Quealey. "This is too bad only if history is going to be a replacement for Batman. Creative fumbling is always preferable to fighting. We have made compromise work." That thought may or may not be sound historically; what is important about it is its welcome new sense...
...Toronto 3, Montreal...