Word: lester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cream & Orange Juice. Finally Mehli Mehta relented, began teaching him the rudiments of the baton. One day, when Zubin was 16, his father let him conduct a Bombay Symphony rehearsal. "The moment he got onto the podium," says Bombay Cellist George Lester, "he instantly took command, gave us our correct cues and put us under his spell...
More from More It would be an outrageous generality to say that the most money always wins. In 1966, Georgia's Segregationist Lester Maddox proved that a polemicist can be elected Governor just by saying the right thing to the right people. He did not even give away campaign buttons: he sold them. In 1964, Barry Goldwater's campaign for the presidency cost the most ever ($19.3 million) and lost by the biggest margin ever. What Goldwater also did was to bring the Republican Party 72% of its gifts in amounts of less than $500, making the G.O.P...
...might have been easier if they'd given him a gold watch. But Canada's Liberal Party caucus, at a farewell party for retiring Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, 70, decided that what the P.M. and Wife Maryon, 64, really coveted was a couple of "skidoo outfits"-explorer-like garb suitable for skimming about on snowmobiles. It wasn't half as squirrelly as it sounded, as the Pearsons are avid skidooers. They donned the quilted jump suits on the spot, and Pearson said he intended to stay thus well insulated "from now on until April"-when...
...Richard Lester mixes explosively funny moments with comedy of a blacker sort in a surrealistic vision of war, as a platoon of World War II tommies (including Michael Crawford, Jack MacGowran, John Lennon) attempts to build an officers' cricket field behind enemy lines...
...Lester S. Hyman, chairman of the Democratic State Committee of Massachusetts, who was not invited to the breakfast session, appeared a half hour after it began "to say hello," and hastily departed...