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NEARLY all TIME stories are written and edited in New York by staff members working with reports sent in by correspondents all over the world. This week's cover story on Canada's next Prime Minister, Lester Pearson, is an exception. It was written and edited in Montreal by our Canada staff, which is manning a unique outpost in TIME'S editorial operation...
...biggest reporting job was done by Ottawa Bureau Chief John Beal, an old TIME hand, who was a correspondent in our Washington bureau for 15 years, and who is author of John Foster Dulles, a biography of the late Secretary of State. In the course of reporting the Pearson story, Beal got many new insights, including an opportunity to study Pearson's never-released diary of his 1955 official visit to Moscow. But it was the more traditional job of following the candidate along the campaign trail that the reporter found most interesting...
Beal, having known Pearson for more than 15 years as an international diplomat, watched him struggle to be a rousing political campaigner, and concluded at the end that the candidate finally was able to establish "two-way communication" with the voters. That communication was enough to make Pearson Canada's new political leader and place him on the cover of TIME, on a background of Canada's Armorial Bearings...
MONTREAL, Quebec, April 8--Liberal leader Lester B. Pearson has emerged as Canada's next Prime Minister on the basis of today's nationwide elections. As of 1130 p.m. he did not have a working majority, but this party had won or was leading 128 ridings. The majority figure...
...seats to the 35 they had in the last Parliament, the Liberals had hoped to gain even more of Ontario's 85 seats. The N.D.P. retained its six seats, although David Lewis, deputy leader of the Party, lost his York South riding to Liberal Marvin Gelber. Liberal leader Lester Pearson easily won his Algoma East constituency...