Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...according to the court-martial charges, Colonel Nickerson wrote his memorandum against the Wilson order, sent it to William F. Hunt of Reynolds Metals Co. and John A. Baumann of Radio Corp. of America (both employed at Redstone), Editor Bergaust of Missiles and Rockets, and to Washington Columnist Drew Pearson. "We took one look at it," said Bergaust later, "and decided we didn't want the stuff around. So we mailed it back to Nickerson, registered. Fortunately, we kept the receipt...
...Washington hearings and played local angles to the hilt. Hearst's Post-Intelligencer (circ. 190,789), on the other hand, ran only routine service stories on the Senate investigation. still had not given the story top Page One play. The P-I diligently killed its syndicated Drew Pearson and Westbrook Pegler columns whenever they criticized Beck...
Back to the Line. Canada's Lester ("Mike") Pearson called this so vague that he refused to co-sponsor it: he wanted to reassure Israel that if it agreed to the first resolution, it would be protected by the second. But Cabot Lodge was after a resolution that would satisfy enough Afro-Asians, and teamed up with India's Krishna Menon to achieve it. Once the Israelis withdrew, said Lodge, the U.N. troops would be "deployed on both sides of the armistice line, particularly in the sensitive Gaza and El Auja sectors" and "at the Strait of Tiran...
...their names as "Mr. Symes" and "Mr. Black," arrived by steamer at the lonely Seychelles Islands far out in the Indian Ocean. They wanted to see the exiled Greek Cypriot leader, Archbishop Makarios. Last week the British government confirmed that Mr. Symes and Mr. Black were in fact Derek Pearson of the Colonial Office and Cleon Tornaritis, former Attorney General of Cyprus, the highest government post ever held by a Cypriot (for holding it, Tornaritis was put on the wanted list by EOKA terrorists, and fled to London where he now works for the British government...
...about the Honorable Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson...