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...thing is wrong with Richard Lester, a big thing," she said of the four some's two-time director, "his content is the same as that of TV commercials...
...long election night in Ottawa, a member of Liberal Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson's entourage glanced disgustedly at a TV screen flashing the results. "It just seems incredible," he sighed. "All this effort, and nothing has changed." After 29 months of minority government, Mike Pearson had called the election-Canada's fifth in eight years-determined to win at least enough additional seats for no less than a 134-seat working majority. The voters gave him 131-only two seats more than he won in the last election. "The results," muttered Pearson, "are quite disappointing...
TORONTO. Nov. 8-Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson retained control of the government in Monday's election, but his projected 127 seats would not constitute a majority in Parliament...
...numbing campaign ditties echoed and re-echoed across the countryside last week as 10 million voters prepared for yet another trip to the polls. Canada's general election next week will be its fifth in eight years, the fourth straight in which Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson, 68, has gone up against Conservative Leader John Diefenbaker, 70 (score: Pearson 1, Dief 2). For many Canadians that old act is getting to be a drag...
...Manhattan law firm whose 1960 probe of conflict-of-interest charges involving Chrysler executives toppled President William C. Newberg (his holdings in companies supplying the automaker earned him more than $450,000) and touched off an avalanche of stockholder suits that forced the resignation of flamboyant Board Chairman Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert; of a stroke; in Teaneck...