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Sears and Lester Hyman, Chairman of the State Democratic Committee, will be among study group leaders. Others are Barney Frank '62, Executive Assistant to Mayor Kevin White of Boston; and Michael Jane way '62, an editor of the Atlantic Monthly...
Politicians, like prizefighters, rarely retire by choice. Not so Lester B. Pearson, 71. Since he retired as Canada's Prime Minister last month, Pearson has declined an offer to teach full time at Yale, although he may give a series of lectures at Harvard next winter. He has settled into a small white cottage in suburban Ottawa, where he intends to spend his days savoring his wife's home cooking ("It's fantastic") and chasing down cobwebs. "We wanted a smallish house," he says, "so that I could do the housework...
...charged on a television panel show last week that Humphrey had already offered the vice-presidential nomination on his ticket "to every Southern Governor." When pressed as to his source, Sorensen insisted: "I know he has." Which governors in particular? "Right across the board." The idea of Humphrey putting Lester Maddox or Lurleen Wallace as close to the presidency as the proverbial heartbeat is, of course, bafflegab, and Sorensen himself later backed away a bit from his initial assertion...
Three days after succeeding Lester Pearson as Canada's 15th Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 48, went before Parliament last week and, in his first formal appearance as leader of the country, dissolved Parliament and called for new general elections on June 25. Thus, ignoring considerable party opinion that he should prove himself to the voters before going to the polls, Trudeau decided to push ahead and try to capitalize on the political momentum that propelled him almost overnight from the Justice Ministry in Pearson's government into his country...
...incumbent Liberal Party which elected him. What is certain is that he has youthfulness and charisma, and it appears that these were the qualities that the Liberals were looking for when they met in Ottawa three weeks ago to choose a successor to 70-year old Lester B. Pearson, who had announced his retirement last winter...