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Still, in spite of direct government intervention, not all the sprawl appeared to be reconnected. Before the workers walked out, two federal conciliation boards had recommended an 18% wage increase, 8% of it payable this year and 10% more next year. Summoning Parliament to debate the crisis, Prime Minister Lester Pearson's Liberal government sought legislation that would authorize only the 8% increase. With an eye on Canada's increasing inflation, the government proposed that railroads and unions bargain out any remaining raise between themselves. The strikers would have none of that, and Parliament soon approved the entire...
...tour, covering New York, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine and extending up to New Brunswick, took shape two weeks ago, when the President agreed to meet Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson on Campobello Island in the Bay of Fundy for a cornerstone-laying ceremony at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Park. Johnson saw a chance to pan some votes before meeting Pearson and, though his trip was solemnly billed as nonpolitical, his itinerary carried him through five congressional districts where freshman Democrats are threatened...
...years ago, when my husband was still a student," says Mrs. Roberta Pearson, wife of a junior bank executive in Chicago. "These prices are robbery. The Government seems more interested in the price of rice in Saigon than in food costs in New York," says Manhattan-dwelling Mrs. Joan Lester. Says Boston's Mrs. Irene Krutt: "If I were younger, I'd grab a placard and picket...
Politics lie behind Sharp's restrictive bank proposal. With Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson expected to retire in a year or two, Sharp's hopes of succeeding him as Liberal Party leader partly hinge on his winning support among Gordon's followers. It was Gordon who originally proposed the bill against foreign banks. By carrying on with it, Sharp stands to build his party strength. Still, he has misgivings that the bill's retroactive provisions, which could force First National City Bank to sell 75% of its stock in its Canadian subsidiary, might damage Canada...
...earlier schooling. Dr. Abram Blau, head of child psychiatry at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, contends that "kids who are sent away from home before age five feel rejected." They also are generally too "self-interested" to either "socialize" or "pay attention to real learning," he argues. Superintendent Lester Ball of the Oak Park, Ill., schools believes that "the average suburban environment can be as good or better than a school" for a four-year...