Word: lester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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M.P.s out of 262-applauded for one full minute when Opposition Leader Lester ("Mike'') Pearson rose to speak. But the Tories professed not to be worried. Their provincial organization in Quebec is practically nonexistent, even though they captured 50 of 75 Quebec seats in the federal House of Commons in the 1958 election. Since their ties with the old Duplessis machine were informal at best, they insist that the Liberal upset in Quebec does not really affect the Diefenbaker government's national popularity. All this is true, but Quebec itself-that proud, peculiar and partisan province...
...were damaging American Motors' future as well as the price of its stock, which is now about 30% below its 1959 high. Said he: "They are not only completely untrue but unfair to everyone who has a stake in our plans for continued growth." Added Chrysler Board Chairman Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert emphatically: "There is absolutely no truth to such a report...
...Died. Lester Patrick, 76, ice hockey's "Silver Fox," who pioneered many of the tactics that have since become standard; of lung cancer; in Victoria, B.C. In 1928, as a 44-year-old coach, Patrick provided one of hockey's most memorable moments when he replaced an injured goalie, worked the nets for the first time in his life, saved a Stanley Cup play-off game for the New York Rangers...
...Khrushchev continued to pour on the agony, the phoniness of Moscow's noisy piety became all too obvious. Canadian Opposition Leader Lester Pearson declared: "It is the sheerest hypocrisy to feign passionate anger and indignation" at "a crime common to all governments and inevitable in present circumstances." Adenauer observed: "Everyone knows that aircraft have been flying at high altitudes over several countries for years . . . I have knowledge that the Russians are flying over our territory as well." In Britain, former Ambassador to Russia Sir William Hayter reminded his countrymen of the embarrassing disappearance of British Frogman Lionel Crabb (TIME...
...Philip Goldsmith, 52, was named president of Bates Manufacturing Co., Maine's largest textile company (1959 sales: $38 million). He was the choice of Bates's chairman and chief stockholder, Mrs. Sylvia Martin, widow of Bates's last president, Lester Martin. Goldsmith is also president of Mojud Co., will keep both jobs. London born, he migrated to Brooklyn after World War I, started as a sample boy in a hosiery firm, by 30 owned his first mill. In 1940 he bought the Diamond hosiery firm (150 employees), sold it in 1954 (sales: $8,000,000; employees...