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...Minister John Diefenbaker, 66, finally declared his intentions. On June 18, Canada's 9,800,000 voters will go to the polls to decide whether to renew Diefenbaker's mandate or return to office what the opposition calls the "Liberal Team" led by onetime External Affairs Secretary Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, 65 - or possibly give neither a clear majority in what is starting off as the tightest Canadian election race this century...
...opportunity." - Bravely breasting the chill Moscow winds, Hollywood's touring Kim Novak, 29. showed up in Red Square with fond hopes of thawing out the cold war in a cultural offensive of sorts. Her dreams of starring in a U.S.-Soviet co-production were heightened as U.S. Producer Lester Cowan and Soviet state film makers agreed to collaborate on a screen version of Novelist Mitchell Wilson's Meeting at a Far Meridian. Also making future missions to Moscow under a new two-year cultural pact that calls for more swaps of artists, students, newsreels, magazines. radio...
...going to call a national election this year (his five-year term has only a year to go), and with the electorate deeply divided on nuclear weapons, Diefenbaker appeared to be trying to please everyone but wound up pleasing no one. In the House of Commons, Liberal Opposition Leader Lester ("Mike") Pearson raised an embarrassing point: Diefenbaker insists on sharing "joint control" over any U.S. nuclear weapons in Canada. But U.S. law forbids any such arrangement. How, therefore, could the Prime Minister be sure that the missiles would be armed in time to do any good? Diefenbaker evaded the point...
...LESTER G. BUSHMANN...
Paring to Size. Gloomy as Chrysler's current situation appears, however, its future possibilities look better because of the quick profit-and-loss reflexes of President Lynn Townsend, 42-a cool, no-nonsense executive who took over from the flamboyant Lester L. ("Tex") Colbert. Last year, while he was still administrative vice president, Townsend fired 7,000 white-collar employees and sold off a clutch of Chrysler plants and office buildings in an effort to bring the company's overhead into line with its present share of the auto market...