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...establishment. The Rivers committee report demanded acerbically "whether we might not be better non-led by a mediocrity than be absolutely dominated by a Caesar." The House's rare show of solidarity behind Rivers' bill was also in part a fervent rejoinder to a column by Drew Pearson that very day charging that the committee chairman's absence from the House (which delayed action on the bill for two weeks) resulted from a monumental drinking binge. Rivers, who has been on the wagon for years, mentioned bursitis, not booze, as the cause of his hospitalization...
...Kansas, G.O.P. Congressman Bob Ellsworth is trying to strengthen his long-shot bid to wrest the senatorial nomination from Incumbent James Pearson by demanding redoubled efforts for negotiations and a place for the Viet Cong at the bargaining table...
Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson, 69, who has built a large part of his effort to unify English and French Canada by cooperating with the government of Quebec's Liberal Premier Jean Lesage, got a rude jolt last week. Lesage, 54, who had even been mentioned as a possible Pearson successor, was drummed out of power in one of the biggest election upsets in recent Canadian history...
...food, raw materials and medical supplies. Well aware that the use of the Royal Navy could provoke sympathy strikes by dockers and truckers handling imported goods, Wilson's government later in the week announced that an independent four-man court of inquiry, headed by Appeals Court Justice Lord Pearson, would investigate the seamen's pay and working conditions and file a report that would serve as a basis for new negotiations. Since the Pearson inquiry is expected to take anywhere from twelve to 14 days, the strike itself could go on for a month...
Canada's celebrated "Munsinger Affair" is more than just a national security flap. It represents a bitter personal contest-possibly to the political death-between Liberal Prime Minister Lester ("Mike") Pearson, 69, and former Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, 70. If Pearson proves his point that Diefenbaker's onetime Associate Defense Minister jeopardized national security in his relationship with 36-year-old German Playgirl Gerda Munsinger, then Diefenbaker could find himself on the way out as opposition leader. If Pearson does not make his case, he might be the one to go. Last week, after five days...