Word: lester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After World War II, the cheapest space for artists in New York was to be found on the decaying Lower East Side. One of its original "Bowery boys" was Lester Johnson, now 47; just as he felt himself on the verge of painting "the Perfect Picture" -consisting of three abstract squares -the guy with the punching bag in the gym down stairs started. "I sat there bouncing," he recalls. "I reached a dead end with my painting...
Ever since the November elections, when his Liberal Party again failed to win an absolute majority of the Canadian House of Commons, Prime Minister Lester Pearson has been acting like a man preparing his exit. Rather than try to undertake any new economic and social reform measures, Pearson has set up what amounts to a caretaker government to continue present policies...
...fact, he had also paid his respects to Italian President Giuseppe Saragat.) Roving U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman popped up in Poland so unexpectedly that he nearly caught U.S. Ambassador John A. Gronouski out of town. Special Presidential Assistant McGeorge Bundy was sent to Ottawa to see Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson, while Under Secretary of State Thomas Mann slipped down Mexico way. To Africa went G. Mennen Williams, dune-hopping from Rabat to Tunis-and eventually 14 countries, seeing such Africans as Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta...
...Harold Wilson. Roving Ambassador Averell W. Harriman surfaced in Warsaw, talked about Viet Nam with top Polish officials, including Communist Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka, headed for Belgrade to see President Tito, planned thence to go to India. White House Special Assistant McGeorge Bundy went secretly to see Prime Minister Lester Pearson in Canada, which is one of three nations on the Viet Nam International Control Commission set up by the 1954 Geneva Conference, thus has a representative in Hanoi...
Stirring the dust that has settled over Canadian politics, Liberal Prime Minis ter Lester B. Pearson last week announced the biggest Cabinet overhaul of any government since World War II. Of 25 ministries, ten were reorganized. Five ministers were shifted out of their jobs into new ones, and five old faces, two of them touched by the scandals that rocked Pearson's Cabinet last year, were replaced altogether. Said Pearson bluntly: "The nature of governmental problems is altering to a dramatic degree. These changes are designed to improve efficiency and better serve the needs of the Canadian people...