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Grays dominated the 100-yard freestyle with Jim Boudreau winning the event in 1.03.3 and Chuck Currier finishing second. In the 200-yard freestyle, Andy Pearson for Thayer Middle was first while the leading qualifier, Anderson, who was obviously tried from the 100 event, dropped to third...
Speaking to Toronto's Canadian Club, Canadian External Affairs Secretary Lester Pearson observed: "Twice in this century Canada has been involved in a major war for periods of two years or more before our American neighbors came in. Today, I think that the neutrality of either of us ... would be unthinkable. That is a tremendous change, and one which must affect all our relations with the U.S. . . . Certain U.S. commitments, those, for instance, covering help to Chiang Kai-shek in Formosa and certain coastal islands, have not been accepted by us. But that is not saying that they...
...Washington two days later, Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies added the endorsement of his 9,000,000 people down under to what Pearson had said. "The enemy is very astute," Menzies told the U.S. Senate, "to seize upon every point of difference among the governments of free countries, and magnify them. I believe that the points of difference . . . are trivial . . .If we were contemplating a great world war in defense of freedom, you would know, I would know, everyone in Great Britain would know, all around the free world we would know, that we would...
Shortly after Pearson finished speaking in Parliament, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent announced a last-minute decision to take his external affairs chief with him to the Commonwealth conference in London (see FOREIGN NEWS). An aide said that at London St. Laurent intends to do "a selling job for Eisenhower...
...nerves is already underway. Wildcat strikes and work stoppages plague the auto industry. A rumor, apparently planted by the union, that both G.M. and Ford would settle for some sort of guaranteed annual wage before negotiations start, was spread by such scattered sources as Columnist Drew Pearson, Gossipist Leonard Lyons and the newsletter of Manhattan's Chemical Corn Exchange Bank. The rumor was vehemently denied by management, and G.M.'s Labor Negotiator Harry Anderson even hustled to Manhattan to straighten out the bank...