Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest reporting job was done by Ottawa Bureau Chief John Beal, an old TIME hand, who was a correspondent in our Washington bureau for 15 years, and who is author of John Foster Dulles, a biography of the late Secretary of State. In the course of reporting the Pearson story, Beal got many new insights, including an opportunity to study Pearson's never-released diary of his 1955 official visit to Moscow. But it was the more traditional job of following the candidate along the campaign trail that the reporter found most interesting...
Beal, having known Pearson for more than 15 years as an international diplomat, watched him struggle to be a rousing political campaigner, and concluded at the end that the candidate finally was able to establish "two-way communication" with the voters. That communication was enough to make Pearson Canada's new political leader and place him on the cover of TIME, on a background of Canada's Armorial Bearings...
...faces, ranged against each other for the third time. There was the flamboyant old Tory campaigner, Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker, 67, a prairie trial lawyer at his best on the hustings and at his weakest in running the Government. Against him once again stood Nobel Prizewinner Lester Bowles Pearson, 65, an able man whose quick, shy grin could not conceal his distaste for campaigning...
...Tense Week. The nation longed for a stable government that would set about putting things right. Two weeks before the election, the likelihood seemed to be another minority regime-a Pearson plurality, needing makeshift accommodations with splinter parties to govern. Instead, when a record 7,800,000 voters went to the polls last week, in a countryside where the last blasts of winter were still being felt in many places, the voters came within an ace of giving Mike Pearson the majority of 133 of the House of Commons' 265 seats. His Liberals won 128 seats to the Tories...
...answer to the subtle difficulties of biculturalism was to say: "There is only one state, one nation." This unalterable belief in unhyphenated Canadianism was anathema to French Canadians. Quebec's return to Liberalism and its whittling down of Caouette's strength were in part an answer to Pearson's promise of a royal commission to re-examine biculturalism. It was also a thoughtful agreement with his concern that if the nation does not return to the founding idea of "equal partnership, equal rights, equal responsibilities, then we may not succeed in preserving Confederation...