Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THIS COMPANY OF MEN by William Pearson. 371 pages. St Martin...
...other words, William Pearson, a Denver lawyer turned novelist, has undertaken to write another insider's story of a great U.S. corporation-in this case, the Consolidated Bell Company in the fictional town of Rowton (pop. 1,000,000). Pearson never actually worked for such a company but observed a counterpart at close quarters when his Denver law firm had dealings from time to time with the local telephone company...
...Matthew's Cathedral. France's De Gaulle would be there, along with Britain's Prince Philip and Prime Minister Douglas-Home, Greece's Queen Frederika, Japan's Crown Prince Akihito, Belgium's King Baudouin, Russia's Deputy Premier Mikoyan, Ireland's President De Valera, Canada's Prime Minister Pearson, Germany's Chancellor Erhard, the Philippines' President Macapagal, and many more...
...bestselling book in Canada last week was a work of harsh political criticism - Renegade in Power: The Diefenbaker Years. It deals with John G. Diefenbaker, the controversial Conservative who held power from 1957 until he was toppled last April by Lester Pearson's Liberals. The first edition of 8,500 was sold out in five days; by Christmas the publishers expect a sale of 25,000 copies, which is brisk demand in a country of 19 million...
Diefenbaker quickly recovered his fighting spirit and stayed on to contest the 1963 elections-in which, says Newman, Kennedy unofficially lent the anti-Diefenbaker Liberals the services of Political Pollster Lou Harris, whose studies of Canadian voting behavior proved invaluable to Pearson...