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...face of racking scandal, few heads of government could have shown more outward aplomb than Prime Minister Lester Pearson. His Justice Minister Guy Favreau got a severe dressing down from Chief Justice Frédéric Dorion for having fumbled a notorious-bribery case involving four highly placed Liberals and a Montreal racketeer. For that, Favreau resigned (TIME, July 9), but Pearson loyally pronounced his continuing faith in his talented protégé. Last week Pearson named Favreau president of the Privy Council. The job might have been a sinecure, but Pearson tacked on a key role...
There is one other matter which I wish to announce," Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson remarked to the Members of Parliament in Ottawa last week. "The Minister of Justice this morning submitted his resignation to me. After discussing the matter twice with him, I have no course but to accept it. I do so with deep regret...
Director Richard Lester, who caught the quintessence of Beatlemania in A Hard Day's Night, sails into The Knack with the same bare-knuckled boldness but less satisfying results. The movie is always inventive and often hilarious, for Lester is not a man to let substance interfere with a sight gag. On film, the characters racket hither and yon in the fashionable New Cinema manner, but they rarely seem insecure, subtly tyrannized by their own drives, or even significantly related to one another...
Some directors struggle continuously to open up a play in film terms: Lester blows the whole show into eye-catching fragments, now freezing the action in frame, now running a scene backward or flashing titles across the screen to identify such commonplace objects as A Saw, A Tool Kit, Girls. The tricks are diverting at first, but finally smack of gimmickry. In the midst of so much frenzy, nothing can really happen, and the dialogue is whipped off at a tommy-gun clip in accents that challenge comprehension anywhere west of Land's End. Only Actress Tushingham and Michael...
Lost Money. Now 34, Ailey is the son of a farm worker his mother hasn't seen for more than 30 years. An all-round athlete in high school, he gave up sports to join the Lester Horton Dance Studio. After 31 semesters of college, he came to Manhattan and appeared in several Broadway productions, finally saved enough to form his own small troupe. By 1961 the company had worked up to four concerts a year, "all the time losing money like mad." The State Department spotted it and in 1962 sent it on a successful tour...