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Partly because the party was badly split by an unsuccessful revolt against Diefenbaker's leadership, the Conservatives lost the 1963 election to Lester Pearson's Liberals. Despite his obvious desire to return to office, Diefenbaker has failed to find a popular issue on which to attack Pearson, actually lost prestige through his contentious opposition to Canada's new maple-leaf flag. The present revolt against him was staged by a group of respected Quebec M.P.s who consider Diefenbaker too old, too crotchety, too out of touch with the country to lead the Conservative Party. What kept...
SALT AND PEPPER (Impulse). On the theory that two tenor saxes are better than one, Sonny Stitt and Paul Gonsalves spur each other to new heights in Salt and Pepper, S'posin' and Perdido, though Stitt, a lively and eloquent musical descendant of Lester Young, outplays the darker, deeper-voiced Gonsalves...
During an audience in London last week with Prime Minister Lester Pearson, Queen Elizabeth II signed a formal proclamation giving Canada its own national flag after 252 years under British colors. It should have been a moment of pride for Pearson. In 21 months of difficult minority rule, his accomplishments, besides the new maple-leaf flag, include armed forces integration, improved federal-provincial relations, the Columbia River Treaty with the U.S. -while the economy has continued strong and growing. But Mike Pearson is doing very little pointing with pride these days. A series of embarrassing scandals cloud and threaten...
Congenial but Cautious. In a less volatile involvement with foreign affairs, Johnson met with an old friend, Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson, and the two announced that tariffs covering auto shipments between the two nations would be dropped. The President also met, for the first time, Japan's new Prime Minister, Eisaku Sato. They got on congenially enough, but both proceeded cautiously and without changing their attitudes on thorny subjects...
...child buyer (Lester Rawlins) purchases highly intelligent "specimens" for United Lymphomoloid, a vast penumbra of a corporation with top-secret government contracts and a futuristic 50-year program for "leaving the earth." If the parents are willing to sell their child, the "specimen" goes through a memory-deleting process and submits to a chilling form of surgery that "ties off" the five senses. He is then on a par with his peers-computers...