Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audience roared their applause until General Assembly President Lester Pearson cracked his gavel. Before the U.N. forum, the U.S. had often made its case with telling legal corrections; seldom had its case been made with such simple, quotable eloquence...
...nominated the Philippines' Carlos Romulo, who won only five votes (U.S., China, Colombia, Greece, Pakistan), two less than needed, and was counted out. Russia named Polish Foreign Minister Stanislaw Skrzeszewski, who got only one vote (Russia). Denmark proposed Canada's Lester Pearson, and many believed that he would not be actively opposed by Russia. Pearson overcame the first obstacle with nine votes (U.S., Britain, France, China, Chile, Denmark, Pakistan, Colombia, Greece), but fell before the second, a Soviet veto (its 56th in the Security Council). The ballots, which are supposed to be secret but aren't, were...
...WHISTLER (276 pp.)-Hesketh Pearson-Harper...
Correcting Nature. Author Hesketh Pearson has proved his skill as an anecdotal biographer before this, e.g., in G.B.S., Disraeli, Dickens, Oscar Wilde. In The Man, Whistler, he does a similarly deft job on an expatriate Yankee who was not only the most uncrushable wit of his day but an artist who believed he existed to correct and perfect Nature itself...
...head the Secretariat. And selection is a major problem since only a wax dummy could never politically offend either side. Obviously, Russia will no more endorse a national from the Western sphere of influence than the West will approve any citizen of a satellite country. This climinates Canada's Pearson, the Philippines' Romulo, and Poland's Skrzeszewski. The Kremlin has scored in Asia by announcing its lack of opposition to either Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit or Sir Benegal...