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...LESTER THUROW, 41. A liberal who remains a moderate Keynesian, Thurow favors tax reductions to fight economic slump. To combat inflation, he opposes inducing a recession or putting on wage and price controls, both of which he considers unfair. Instead, Thurow, who is an M.I.T. professor, advocates removing Government price props, such as subsidies and tariffs...
...accomplished largely through the development of Canada's natural resources and the Arctic north. Though an unwavering antiCommunist, he detested McCarthyism and promoted trade with China and ties to Cuba. Criticized for running a one-man show, "Dief the Chief was eventually defeated by Liberal Lester Pearson, partly because he refused to arm Canada's NATO force with U.S. atomic weapons. Elected to Commons for a record 13th time last May, he appeared on TV five days before his death, decrying the divisions in his country: "Suspicion, fear, all those things that deny unity are present...
Texas Preacher Lester Roloff's brand of religious schooling [June 25] reeks of brainwashing, intimidation and mental, if not physical, bludgeoning. No wonder he can claim "success." Even as devoted an "infidel" as I would gladly smash my rock albums and burn my TV set if the alternative was spending a few days lashed to a toilet...
...surprising that a largely secular and materialistic society should reject the Rev. Lester Roloff and his belief in biblical discipline because his ideas are not popular in our permissive world. In this society it is more reasonable to electrocute a man than to discipline a child who wavers...
...Lester Lanin, society orchestra leader: "I very seldom fail to play the wedding of a girl whose coming-out we've played. Then she becomes chairman of a charity ball and engages us. They're loyal, the social element in this country...