Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long election night in Ottawa, a member of Liberal Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson's entourage glanced disgustedly at a TV screen flashing the results. "It just seems incredible," he sighed. "All this effort, and nothing has changed." After 29 months of minority government, Mike Pearson had called the election-Canada's fifth in eight years-determined to win at least enough additional seats for no less than a 134-seat working majority. The voters gave him 131-only two seats more than he won in the last election. "The results," muttered Pearson, "are quite disappointing...
...Tired Cast. Even before all the votes were tallied, Pearson's friend, national campaign chairman and Finance Minister, Walter Gordon, resigned from the Cabinet, shouldering the blame for giving Pearson the bad advice to call an election. Yet Pearson was the man on the line, and the result was doubly shocking because his minority government had been relatively successful-pushing Canada's already booming economy to new peaks, improving federal-provincial relations, soothing the dangerous friction between French and English-speaking Canada, giving the country its own flag...
...What Pearson and so many others failed to assess properly was Canada's weariness over so many elections, and its growing impatience with the two aging contenders-Pearson, 68, and Diefenbaker, 70-who have now faced each other four times in a row. As one observer put it: "Two dreary old men nobody wants-two character actors still making farewell tours in the sticks long after the public has retired them...
...contented nation that is already getting more every day-and expects it as a matter of course. Even the huge wheat sales to Russia and Red China (850 million bu. worth $1.7 billion in the past two years) were taken for granted; of 48 seats in the prairie provinces, Pearson's Liberals won exactly one. By the same token, last winter's series of influence-peddling scandals in Pearson's government seemed to have little carryover effect at the polls. Collectively, the voters opted for the status quo; having had a minority government that...
With Dr. A. W. Pearson, Medical Director of the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Clinic, Dr. Taylor is currently observing 150 alcoholics under treatment, and so far has found similar results. In New York, Dr. J. Martin Semer, who is making a parallel study, reports with enthusiasm: "This is the first indication that a chemical can do anything more than make a patient sick when he drinks." Metronidazole, for still unclear reasons, mounts a two-pronged attack, working on both the mind and the body. Like Antabuse, it can leave a drinker violently nauseated, but before that happens it cuts down on alcohol...