Word: lester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Viet Nam's treatment of Buddhists; and Indonesia promises a hot fight against Malaysia's taking over the seat formerly occupied by Malaya. The military operation in the Congo will again trigger a bitter controversy. But for all the noise ahead, Canada's Prime Minister Lester Pearson felt the 18th to be "the Assembly of opportunity." Pearson backed Secretary-General U Thant's request for a permanent peace-keeping force composed of specially trained units from contributing nations. "The Scandinavian member states have shown the way," said Pear son, adding that a similar Canadian force...
...best debutante parties of the year, given for pretty, blonde Fernanda Wanamaker Wetherill by her stepfather and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Leas, at their estate. In all, some 800 of what Vogue likes to call The Beautiful People disported themselves amid pink marquees to the music of Lester Lanin, Mark (not Meyer) Davis and an 18-piece twist band. At about 6 a.m. the party broke up, but some 65 of the boys and girls chipped in $5 per couple to hire the twist band for three more hours of fun at a big, old, vacant mansion, which...
...brought out his daughter Susan in Cooperstown, N.Y.; this week Fernanda Wanamaker Wetherill, daughter of Philadelphia's Francis Bring Wetherill and Mrs. Donald Stewart Leas Jr., will have a huge party in Southampton; Cynthia Phipps, daughter of horsy Investment Banker Ogden Phipps, will entertain 1,000 guests with Lester Lanin's music on Long Island Sept. 9; and two days before that, Mr. and Mrs. Irénée Du Pont Jr. will throw one of the season's biggest balls at their Wilmington, Del., estate for their debutante daughter Irene...
Wednesday, August 21 The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.).* Folk Musicians Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs make a special guest appearance as former suitors of Cousin Pearl...
Last week President Kennedy ordered Army engineers to work up final details for an Administration request to Congress. He planned it for 1964, but Maine's ever-eager Congressmen announced that they will introduce legislation this year. The Canadians were no less anxious. Prime Minister Lester Pearson enthusiastically promised "immediate consideration...