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...Enough Cars. Chrysler's Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert, embarrassed by his own shortage of cars (TIME, Dec. 10), said that "by all present indications, the retail market for cars in 1957 should be bigger by a substantial margin." For one reason, buyers would be in a stronger position than in 1956, when many of them were paying off the autos they bought in the record year of 1955. Said Colbert: "A substantial percentage of those who purchased new cars in 1955 on the installment plan have already paid off these obligations, or will have them paid off some time...
With equal firmness but less heat, External Affairs Secretary Lester Pearson pointed out that Britain had failed to advise Canada of its Middle East plans. Lacking prior consultation, Canada went to the U.N. and voted independently. "If a resolution is right, we vote for it," Pearson said. "It is bad to be a chore boy for the United States. It is equally bad to be a colonial chore boy, running around shouting 'Ready, aye, ready...
...stock, 300,000 out of 2,644,486 outstanding. Wall Street speculated that he may be trying to get control of the company since his investment is now bigger than the holdings of the next biggest stockholders, former Fox Production Head Darryl Zanuck (about 130,000 shares), Textileman Lester Martin (about 70,000), Fox President Spyros P. Skouras (about...
...friends and allies did their best to save Britain this final pommeling. Canada's Lester Pearson, who sponsored the resolution setting up UNEF, assured the Assembly that the Menon resolution was "unnecessary." The U.S. delegation, torn between its desire not to damage the Atlantic alliance further and its anxiety to retain new-found U.S. prestige in Asia and Africa, wavered. Finally, in the third U.S. change of heart in two days, Cabot Lodge lukewarmly but conclusively lined the U.S. up behind Menon...
...Victorian dandy, to exude high humor in the finale which he plays behind a stunning make-up job. Others in the cast include Catherine Huntington, Gail Kepner, Robert Leibacher, and John Coe. The last act set, the California patio scene, is designed with a real satirical flavor by Lester Gediman...