Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finally declared his intentions. On June 18, Canada's 9,800,000 voters will go to the polls to decide whether to renew Diefenbaker's mandate or return to office what the opposition calls the "Liberal Team" led by onetime External Affairs Secretary Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, 65 - or possibly give neither a clear majority in what is starting off as the tightest Canadian election race this century...
Better June than Later. The P.M.'s complaint that Pearson's 51 Liberals man aged to block the Tories' massive majority of 203 M.P.s fell rather lamely, the more so since Tory strategists had every reason to prefer June to September. The Tories recently boosted old-age pensions by $10 a month, and this gift was likely to be fresher in mind. Western farmers, grateful to the Tories for selling of $228 million in surplus grain to Red China, are in a better mood now than they are apt to be after the summer's expected...
House delegates to the newly-formed Radcliffe Government Association are Edith A. Dudley '68, Joanne M. Pearson '63, and Andrea M. Peterson '64, of North, South, and East Houses respectively...
...call a national election this year (his five-year term has only a year to go), and with the electorate deeply divided on nuclear weapons, Diefenbaker appeared to be trying to please everyone but wound up pleasing no one. In the House of Commons, Liberal Opposition Leader Lester ("Mike") Pearson raised an embarrassing point: Diefenbaker insists on sharing "joint control" over any U.S. nuclear weapons in Canada. But U.S. law forbids any such arrangement. How, therefore, could the Prime Minister be sure that the missiles would be armed in time to do any good? Diefenbaker evaded the point-and left...
...have to arbitrarily assume that one of them is better than the other. For the amount of power and responsibility involved in the offices as they are defined in the new constitution, it is unfair to ask the students to make their choices on such shaky foundations. Joanne M. Pearson...