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Died. Hesketh Pearson, 77, British biographer, frustrated Shakespearean actor, whose gossipy, tarts-and-all style of literary portraiture produced 18 skin-deep but readable studies of improper Victorians Charles Dickens (one illegitimate child) and Oscar Wilde (two legitimate ones), other figures from Britain's King Charles II ("most civilized of monarchs") to that self-styled rebel against "the tyranny of sex," George Bernard Shaw; of jaundice; in London...
Direct as Oils. Seventy-two artists have come to Tamarind to see and conquer lithography. Lipchitz' only litho bears Tamarind's chop. Richard Diebenkorn, Antonio Frasconi, John Hult-berg, Henry Pearson, John Paul Jones, Misch Kohn, James McGarrell, Louise Nevelson, Rico Lebrun and Jose Luis Cuevas have done prints there...
Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson's administration had long delayed such a drastic step, though a S.I.U. walkout and the dynamiting of a Canadian freighter manned by a rival union last fall indicated that there would be no waterfront peace as long as Banks was in power. For the past five months, government-appointed trustees have run the S.I.U. in an effort to clean it up and get the members themselves to vote Banks...
...which, it seemed, was still only in the discussion stage. Two weeks ago, the Security Council had authorized such a force but, despite backstage urging by Britain and the U.S., it had not yet been assembled. "Events move very rapidly these days," said Canada's Prime Minister Lester Pearson, inferring that they move far faster than governments. Canada was willing to supply 1,000 soldiers but did not intend to be the only partner of Britain in a peacekeeping operation...
...Prime Minister Pearson's first acts when he took office last year was to appoint a Royal Commission on Biculturalism to recommend ways to develop "the basis of equal partnership." But feelings run deep, and, partly spurred by the rise of Charles de Gaulle's France to new prominence, more and more French Canadians are openly talking about a separate Quebec. Yet the fear of economic hardship, among other things, discourages many Quebeckers from taking separatism seriously-it would be a "disaster," says Quebec's Premier Jean Lesage. On its own, however, Quebec is seeking capital from...