Word: lester
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Honorable Lester Bowles Pearson, Prime Minister of Canada and 1957 winner of Nobel Peace Prize. . . . LL.D...
...whites gathered in downtown Lexington, Assistant Police Chief Lester Sheets estimated that around 800 moved toward the Negro apartment block and were met by some 400 Negroes. Among segregated facilities that Negroes attempted to integrate the day before the race riot were a bowling alley (Negroes were refused), the white section of a theater (the lights were turned off), and a drugstore counter, where as TIME reported, the Negroes were served...
From the tone of last spring's election campaign, U.S. investors in Canada were led to believe that the Liberals' Lester Pearson would provide a milder, more benign business climate than Conservative John Diefenbaker. But last week, when Pearson's new government presented its first budget to Parliament, it became clear that while Diefenbaker only barked about "Canadianization" of industry, "Mike" Pearson was going to bite. Items...
Five for One. Though he seems to be in a lonely minority, Sunday Editor Lester Markel, 69, who also runs the News of the Week in Review, the Drama and the Book Review sections, somehow manages to ignore all those girls in hip-hugging scanties. "This magazine is governed by the complexion of the news," says Markel, and not by the tastes of the woman who needs a new foundation. "I edit for Markel. I print things that interest me." What interests the crusty, 40-year veteran are broad-stroked stories on important, reasonably current topics-desegregation, the Common Market...
...defeated Conservative government, was rambling through what seemed to be an expectable Opposition speech in Parliament. Then, with Diefenbaker sitting near by and without changing his tone, he threw a bomb that reverberated across the country. He read a letter supposedly written last January to Liberal Leader Lester Pearson by U.S. Ambassador W. Walton Butterworth Jr., blatantly siding with Pearson's Liberals in the political campaign...