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...long election night in Ottawa, a member of Liberal Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson's entourage glanced disgustedly at a TV screen flashing the results. "It just seems incredible," he sighed. "All this effort, and nothing has changed." After 29 months of minority government, Mike Pearson had called the election-Canada's fifth in eight years-determined to win at least enough additional seats for no less than a 134-seat working majority. The voters gave him 131-only two seats more than he won in the last election. "The results," muttered Pearson, "are quite disappointing...
With Dr. A. W. Pearson, Medical Director of the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Clinic, Dr. Taylor is currently observing 150 alcoholics under treatment, and so far has found similar results. In New York, Dr. J. Martin Semer, who is making a parallel study, reports with enthusiasm: "This is the first indication that a chemical can do anything more than make a patient sick when he drinks." Metronidazole, for still unclear reasons, mounts a two-pronged attack, working on both the mind and the body. Like Antabuse, it can leave a drinker violently nauseated, but before that happens it cuts down on alcohol...
TORONTO. Nov. 8-Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson retained control of the government in Monday's election, but his projected 127 seats would not constitute a majority in Parliament...
...Pearson called the election in hopes of converting his 127-seat minority government into at least a 133-seat majority. Why? quite a few Canadians ask, since in the 30 months he has been in power he has done just fine with the help of two splinter parties. The economy is humming; unemployment is down to a nine-year low; gross national product is climbing 9% a year. And last week-by no coincidence-Pearson's government announced still another huge overseas wheat sale: a three-year deal with Red China for up to 186.7 million bushels worth...
...Even so, Pearson has never been a good campaigner and has been unable to stir the voters with his quiet recital of accomplishments-just as Diefenbaker, a member of the old oratorical school, has failed to inflame the populace with a vitriolic attack on some ugly but fading scandals within Pearson's government. Outside of that, Diefenbaker's campaign pitch has been a promise to give almost everybody more and do it better. The latest Gallup poll gives the Liberals 47% of the vote, Diefenbaker's Conservatives 30%, with the rest split among other parties or "undecided...