Word: lester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alliance for Progress as ruining a country for its upper classes. In Bolivia, the country has been ruined for everyone else as well, and if that is what the Alliance for Progress stands for, it is well that it is now as bogged down as it is. Lester O'Shea...
Difficulties came to a head under Lester Lum ("Tex'') Colbert, 57, former Chrysler attorney who took over command of the company in 1950. Colbert began a feverish drive to modernize Chrysler's plants, and was responsible for the rakish "Forward Look" that made Chrysler's 1957 cars a runaway success. But in the process, he let the company's quality standards slip scandalously. By 1959, Chrysler sales had slipped from a solid 25% of the U.S. auto market under Walter P. down to 11.3%. From a $120 million profit in 1957, the company staggered into a $34 million loss...
...professional years, Lester Markel, 68, has edited the prestigious Sunday magazine of the New York Times. During that time, Sunday Editor Markel has stored up his share of gripes about the competence of his colleagues. In the current Harper's Magazine, Markel fires off a volley at what he calls "The Real Sins of the Press"-a scattershot barrage so broad that some of its shells might well fall on Markel's own paper...
Mistaken Maxim. Lesage's smashing victory made him a hot national property for the Liberals in Ottawa, particularly since the party historically alternates its leadership between French-speaking and English-speaking Canadians. Current Liberal Leader Lester Pearson, who took over from French Canadian Louis St. Laurent, is working hard to topple the five-month-old minority government of Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and to force new elections. One of the reasons Pearson did not win power in last June's elections was his failure to get Lesage's full support in Quebec. Following the provincial idea...
...citizens agree. But Canadian External Affairs Secretary Howard Green, a staunch advocate of disarmament at the U.N., has long argued against the idea on the theory that the fewer countries with nuclear bases the better. And Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, ever mindful that opposition Liberal Leader Lester B. Pearson once won a Nobel Peace Prize, backs him up. No nukes for Canada...