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...Nasser officers, including Abu Nuwar; 2) dismissal of Hussein's new Cabinet; 3) sacking of Hussein's Court Minister; 4) a promise not to invite to Jordan Roving Ambassador James Richards, President Eisenhower's special representative in the Middle East; and 5) expulsion of U.S. Ambassador Lester Mallory...
...What has been heretofore the Norman case," said the Toronto Globe and Mail, "now becomes the Pearson case." Last week the political hurricane whipped up by the suicide of Ambassador Herbert Norman in Cairo buffeted Canada's External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson, who stood accused of cover-up and contradiction in public statements about Ambassador Norman's security position...
Assured by External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson that Canadian security checks gave a "clean bill of health" to Herbert Norman, Canadian Ambassador to Egypt, Canadians last week turned hotly angry with a U.S. Senate subcommittee that released evidence of Norman's Communist leanings in the 1930s. Politicians, editors and many others blamed the subcommittee for Norman's suicide leap from a Cairo building a fortnight ago. Then at week's end, harassed "Mike" Pearson admitted under intensive questioning in the House of Commons that "Mr. Norman, as a university student many years ago, was known to have...
Canada's Department of External Affairs took pains to say that Norman had never visited Cape Cod. External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson told a press conference that he had sent a message to Washington, expressing "regret and annoyance" that Norman had been named "on the basis of an unimpressive and unsubstantiated allegation by a former Communist." The charges against Norman, Pearson said, had been investigated in two Canadian security checks, "as a result of which Mr. Norman was given a clean bill of health, and he therefore remains a trusted and valuable official of the department." At the same...
...Pontiac division, and chief styling engineer for Studebaker (at the age of 29), he joined Chrysler at a time when President K. T. Keller, who once snorted at postwar advances as "the Jell-O school of design," was holding fast to Chrysler's ultraconservative styling. Under new President Lester Lum Colbert, Exner set about modernizing Chrysler's line, put the company back on the road with designs for 1957 models that are the most radical in the industry...