Word: lester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year, as usual, many of you nominated your own candidates (see LETTERS). Among the nominees: Billy Graham, Governor Faubus, Laika, Jonas Salk, President Eisenhower, Bert and Harry Piel, Khrushchev, Nobel Prizewinner Lester Pearson, Mike Todd and two, symbolic nominees, the scientist and the American Negro...
...Lester Pearson, Canadian ex-External Affairs chief and Nobel Peace Prizewinner: "No progress will be made if one side merely shouts 'coexistence' . . . while the other replies 'no appeasement' . . . Our policy and diplomacy is becoming as rigid and defensive as the trench warfare of 40 years ago . . ." There ought to be "frank, serious and complete exchanges of views-especially between Moscow and Washington-through diplomatic and political channels...
...automakers, whose sales have a prime effect on the U.S. economy, last week lowered their targets. Chrysler President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert, who only a few months ago was the soul of confidence as he predicted a 6,000,000-plus year for autos in 1958, told a Harvard Business School audience that the entire auto industry is in for a poorer year than he expected-though still a good one. "We know that the people have the jobs and that their savings-bank accounts are at a high level," said Colbert, "but the consumer has lost the desire...
...LESTER JACKSON...
...what of teacher training? Last year, the National Education Association reported, U.S. colleges and universities turned out only 2,982 mathematics teachers, compared to 9,783 teachers of physical education. Said Dean Lester Vander Werf of Northeastern College of Education: "Teachers are of a lower mental caliber than members of any other profession and are not intelligent enough for the functions they perform. Bright students are not encouraged by parents and teachers to become teachers...