Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rarely in history has public opinion reacted so spontaneously and with such fury. In Detroit, Mayor Jerome Cavanaugh and Michigan's Governor George Romney led a protest parade of 10,000 people. In Chicago, demonstrators blocked rush-hour traffic in the Loop. Nearly 2,000 people marched in Toronto, 1,000 in Union, N.J., 1,000 in Washington. In California and Wisconsin, in Connecticut and New York, citizens streamed onto the streets to express their rage...
...night of Feb. 6. The league-leading Chicago Black Hawks were playing the Toronto Maple Leafs, and all eyes were on Chicago's great Bobby Hull as he picked up the loose puck and rocketed down the rink. Hull had already scored one goal (his 38th in 48 games), and he was taking aim again when-oof!-Bob Baum hit him with a crunching body check. Hull crumpled to the ice with pulled ligaments in his knee. In that instant, the whole National Hockey League season turned topsy-turvy...
...Detroit Red Wings. Detroit has not won the N.H.L. championship since 1957; on Feb. 6, the Red Wings were mired in fourth place, trailed only by the hapless New York Rangers and Boston Bruins. Last week the Red Wings edged New York 6-5 and Montreal 3-2, clobbered Toronto 4-2, and took over undisputed possession of first place. A few nights later, the Wings finally had their winning string snapped-after seven straight-by the Montreal Canadiens, 4-2. But with only seven games to play, they still led the N.H.L. by a full game...
...that some of them are childhood heroes of the men they play against. At 36, in his 19th big-league season, Gordie Howe is the top scorer in N.H.L. history (590 goals), and he seems to get better all the time. Last week Gordie scored two goals against Toronto, assisted on another, and ran his season's total to 63 points-fourth highest in the league. Defenseman Bill Gadsby, 37, has also been around for 19 years; in that time, he has had his left leg broken twice, both big toes fractured, his nose broken seven times, both thumbs...
Then there is Ted Lindsay. After four years as a respectable, golf-playing Detroit businessman, "Terrible Ted," 39, is back on the ice-scoring 13 goals, and belting opponents around with such undisguised glee that he has already spent 159 minutes in the penalty box-second only to Toronto's "Bad Boy" Carl Brewer...