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Disdaining the complaints, Pearson announced a Cabinet reshuffle that was designed to look like reform but was at best a halfway housecleaning. To his credit, Pearson did take care of one little problem that was hanging fire. Guy Rouleau, the P.M.'s own parliamentary secretary, had been involved in the case and had resigned; now Pearson drummed Rouleau out of the House of Commons and the party altogether...
...face of racking scandal, few heads of government could have shown more outward aplomb than Prime Minister Lester Pearson. His Justice Minister Guy Favreau got a severe dressing down from Chief Justice Frédéric Dorion for having fumbled a notorious-bribery case involving four highly placed Liberals and a Montreal racketeer. For that, Favreau resigned (TIME, July 9), but Pearson loyally pronounced his continuing faith in his talented protégé. Last week Pearson named Favreau president of the Privy Council. The job might have been a sinecure, but Pearson tacked on a key role...
Favreau's new appointment brought a storm of criticism against Mike Pearson's Liberal government, which has been tarnished in a series of other scandals. Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker cried angrily that "no other country in the world would have given Favreau another Cabinet appointment...
...this is priceless ammunition for the opposition Conservatives-and obscures the fact that Pearson's government is doing a good job of managing Canada's thriving economy, has improved federal-provincial relations, and tried to ease the dangerous split between English-and French-speaking Canadians. Favreau's resignation could well impair these relations by creating doubt about Quebec's Liberal leadership among provincial voters. The Conservatives would love to topple Pearson's government and force new elections. But the party is in the midst of an intramural fight over the leadership of former Prime Minister...
That kind of freedom inspires a spirit of independence in which, says Bennington Dean Harry Pearson, the girls "take great pleasure in tweaking the noses of the middle classes." To celebrate the 700th anniversary of the birth of Dante (see BOOKS) this spring, the girls donned costumes and reconstructed the campus according to the Divine Comedy-Hell was the college dump, Heaven a hilltop garden. Men at nearby colleges are prone to gossip about Bennington students as "rather bohemian girls of a sexually compliant nature," which sometimes leads the girls to answer requests for dates with an icy "I have...