Word: lester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...test pilot stationed in northeast Poland, Major Obacz received official clearance to log extra flight time by flying his family to visit relatives in Szczecin (formerly Stettin), on the East German border. Obacz crammed his wife and two sons, Lester, 9, and Christopher, 5, into the rear seat of a prop-driven, two-seater training plane. Only after they were aloft did he tell them-over the plane's intercom-that he was making a break. To avoid Communist radar detection, he hedgehopped over the ground, never flew higher than 150 ft. throughout the entire 150-mile trip. When...
...Everhart's Archbishop of Canterbury does not seem religious (properly so, perhaps), but he injects a wonderful bit of humor into his long sophistry over the "Salique law" by following each occurrence of the word "daughter" with a "hmm?" Lester Rawlins makes a rich and colorful figure of the valorous Welsh captain Fluellen...
Discriminating Proposals. The question mark for the future is the contro versial budget crafted by Lester Pearson's Finance Minister Walter Gordon. Business is reacting bearishly to a proposal to eliminate the 11% manufacturing sales-tax exemption that has been enjoyed by building materials and industrial machinery. Calgary's Keith Construction Co. has suspended sales of all houses now abuilding, and R. L. Grain, Ltd., a business-forms producer, has temporarily halted a plant it was planning for Toronto. Oilmen estimate that the proposal would cost them $20 million a year...
...Edmund, Douglas Watson moves lithely, has the proper glint in his eyes, and articulates cleanly, even exaggerating and toying with the alliterative b-sounds in his lines. James Ray does not always keep Edgar in focus, but Lester Rawlins brings pathos to the half-witted wisdom and grotesque postures of the Fool. The evil of Tom Sawyer's Cornwall is well spoken, as is that of Nicholas Martin's Oswald...
Liberal Leader Lester Pearson, who promised spectacular accomplishments during his first 60 days in office, has since regretted his electioneering enthusiasm. As the 60th day rolled around, the only tangible legislative accomplishment he could point to was his first budget. And that last week proved so ill-considered that it trapped Pearson and his longtime friend and economic adviser, Finance Minister Walter Gordon, 57, in a violent and humiliating political uproar...