Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Columnist Drew Pearson interviewed Marshal Tito recently at the island retreat of Brijoni, he was surprised to discover that the dictator's aides were more interested in getting details about the death of Marilyn Monroe than in discussing nuclear testing or Berlin. Last week Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev arrived in Belgrade for a ten-day state visit, and the Yugoslavs again allowed themselves to be distracted from world affairs by a lovely female figure...
...Angels are the second worst fielding team in the league. No Angel batter is hitting .300. The team roster reads like a page from Who's That? Centerfielder Albie Pearson is a 5-ft. 5-in. shortie who hits a golf ball better than a baseball, and sings rock 'n' roll on the side. Star Pitcher Bo ("No Hit") Belinsky is an unreconstructed pool shark. A retread catcher plays leftfield, and the Angels' double-play combination has toiled for a grand total of 16 other clubs. Manager Bill Rigney was sacked by the Giants, and General...
Throughout eight long weeks of election campaigning, Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, 66, insisted that "steady growth and expansion is the climate of Canada today." Anyone, such as Opposition Leader "Mike" Pearson, who pointed to vanishing exchange reserves or fleeing foreign capital, was dismissed as a "crier of gloom and doom." Last week, barely six days after he squeaked back to power with a wobbly minority government, Diefenbaker abruptly turned about to announce that Canada's foreign exchange reserves had dwindled so alarmingly that he had been forced to call on the 'U.S., Great Britain...
Diefenbaker's opposition disputed the claim of instant crisis. "In fact," said Pearson, "the present emergency began to develop early this year." Social Credit's Réal Caouette, the funny-money oiator who led his créditistes to a surprising 26 seats in French-Canadian Quebec, put it in blunter fashion. "Diefenbaker knew it months ago; for the campaign, he was hiding those things," he said. "He ought to resign." Diefenbaker indicated that he would not call Parliament into session until September, so that noisy debates would not worsen the crisis. Opposition leaders might grumble...
Caouette's timetable may prove to be realistic. On the downswing, Diefenbaker's Conservatives clearly will try to hold out as long as possible. Pearson's Liberals are talking as if they would like to force a fall election, but few political observers at the moment share their conviction that the results would be much different. Canada, a nation still in economic difficulty despite its recent devaluation of the dollar to 92½?, seems destined to limp along as best it can with a government lacking a parliamentary majority...