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Word: lester (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...polished Continental and robust old English influence that mixes and merges in London today. The result is a sparkling, slapdash comedy not unlike those directed for the screen by Britain's own Tony (Tom Jones) Richardson or Czech Emigre Karel (Morgan!) Reisz, and filmed by Director Richard (Help!) Lester, a fugitive from Philadelphia, who uses the sudden stills and the hurry-up time that he learned filming advertising commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: You Can Walk Across It On the Grass | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

...Lester were scripting the action that took place in London last week, five storyboards might look like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: You Can Walk Across It On the Grass | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

Rifles v. Ruffles. If the President's unorthodox strategies fail, stronger medicine may be in order-though probably not as strong as the dose that Lester Pearson's Liberals last week readied for Canada. To "pace the prosperity" there, the government hopes to raise income taxes 8%, cut back government construction 10% and levy a 5% tax on industry's cash profits, refundable with interest 18 to 36 months after payment. In the U.S., Johnson's Republican opposition insists that the most effective medicine would be a cut in domestic spending. Accordingly, when a $2.5 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Virtues of Penny Pinching | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

Prime Minister Lester Pearson last week temporarily put the lid back on what, after two weeks of national uproar, has been nicknamed "The Mudslinger Affair." Before a packed House of Commons, Liberal Pearson announced that he had appointed Supreme Court Justice Wishart Flett Spence, 62, to look into the possible security lapses resulting from the friendships of German Go-Go Girl Gerda Munsinger, 36, with "ministers-plural" of the previous Conservative government. Many of the hearings will be held in camera. Barring major new developments, this should put the whole case largely out of the public eye until the judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Lunch at the C | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

...public before. Could this be what Cardin was referring to? Nonsense, said Diefenbaker, flying away for a fishing trip. But the Munsinger case it was, and last week it exploded through Canada with such fury that it threatened to topple Cardin and the whole Liberal government of Prime Minister Lester Pearson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Munsinger Affair | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

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