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RICHARD E. PEARSON Washington...
Wars, Presidents and newspapers have come and gone, and the columnists of yesterday still write on, as confidently as ever. Arthur Krock at 79, David Lawrence at 76, Walter Lippmann at 76, and Drew Pearson at 67 remain familiar if greying presences in the nation's press. Roscoe Drummond, 63, James Reston, 56, and Joseph Alsop, 55, have been around so long that they too seem part of the patriarchy. But the roster of challengers is growing fast...
...Tired Cast. Even before all the votes were tallied, Pearson's friend, national campaign chairman and Finance Minister, Walter Gordon, resigned from the Cabinet, shouldering the blame for giving Pearson the bad advice to call an election. Yet Pearson was the man on the line, and the result was doubly shocking because his minority government had been relatively successful-pushing Canada's already booming economy to new peaks, improving federal-provincial relations, soothing the dangerous friction between French and English-speaking Canada, giving the country its own flag...
...What Pearson and so many others failed to assess properly was Canada's weariness over so many elections, and its growing impatience with the two aging contenders-Pearson, 68, and Diefenbaker, 70-who have now faced each other four times in a row. As one observer put it: "Two dreary old men nobody wants-two character actors still making farewell tours in the sticks long after the public has retired them...
...contented nation that is already getting more every day-and expects it as a matter of course. Even the huge wheat sales to Russia and Red China (850 million bu. worth $1.7 billion in the past two years) were taken for granted; of 48 seats in the prairie provinces, Pearson's Liberals won exactly one. By the same token, last winter's series of influence-peddling scandals in Pearson's government seemed to have little carryover effect at the polls. Collectively, the voters opted for the status quo; having had a minority government that...