Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard-Toronto Exchange will hold its introductory meeting for graduate students at 8 p.m. tonight in the Lowell House Junior Common Room...
...they are not at all enthusiastic. There are no real issues; the country is calm, prosperous and intent on getting more so. The normally pro-Pearson Ottawa Citizen was sharply critical of "the specious grounds" for an election; the Ottawa Journal called it "a spectacle of bad judgment"; the Toronto Globe and Mail rapped Pearson for ignoring "every conviction relative to the national good." Summed up the Montreal Star: "The feeling across the country is that no election is necessary. Mr. Pearson has chosen to act in defiance of that feeling...
Clear Victory. Architect Revell did not live to see his city hall completed, but the finished building has remained remarkably true to his original concept. Rising up from Toronto's mixture of old and new buildings, it has taken the shape of two curved towers (27 and 20 floors, respectively) that, like gigantic hands, cup the central civic plaza. There, standing like a champagne glass on a single stem, is the low city-council chamber and mayor's office. Beneath the complex is a four-level parking garage with space for 2,400 cars. Setting the center...
With a whoosh of Royal Canadian Air Force jets streaking across the sky and a blaring salute from the 100-man honor guard below, Toronto this week will begin celebrating its sparkling new city hall. Before the festivities are over, there will be fireworks, folk dancing in the plaza, a symphonic rendition of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, and a Toronto a go-go with no fewer than six rock 'n' roll bands. Such civic fanfare is unusual even in fast-growing Toronto. But after eight years of waiting and the expenditure of more than $30 million, Torontonians...
...were enthusiastic. Typical was the response of one home-town girl back from Italy: "Just looking at that building makes me proud." And as for incumbent Mayor Philip Givens, he could barely contain his pride. "It's unusual, unique, daring, bold," he declared. "It typifies the spirit of Toronto. It's a smasheroo...