Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hungrily decided that the Pentagon had pulled the rug from under Diefenbaker for good. Socialist Leader Hazen Argue, who argues that Canada should spend its defense money on international good works, angrily shouted that Canadian defenses were "useless and due for a complete overhaul." For the Liberals, Lester ("Mike") Pearson charged that "every dollar being spent on Bomarc is in great danger of being wasted...
Market Survey. In Detroit, sentenced to 30 days in jail for stealing a $5 rock-'n'-roll disk from a record shop, Earl Pearson explained: "I lifted a classical record from that same shop a couple of days ago. But I couldn't sell it on Skid Row. Everybody wanted rock 'n' roll...
Among the top Washington wielders of this power, the range of style, ability and responsibility is as broad as the U.S. itself. It stretches from the gross inaccuracies of Drew Pearson, who is at once the least reliable and the best ratcatching reporter in town, to the sage, sometimes unfathomable profundities of Walter Lippmann, treating the current news as though it were already history. It includes Doris Fleeson, the self-appointed whip of the Democratic Party, who only last week accused her party of McCarthy tactics in castigating the sins of the Eisenhower Administration without offering any salvation for them...
...assignment, half sports and half Foreign Office reporting, lad opened up in 1937. Soon Reston, who says, "I didn't even know where Germany was on the map," was concentrating on the embassies. Reston shrewdly cultivated friendships with some of the young foreign officers, notably Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, then first secretary in the Canadian embassy, now leader of Canada's opposition Liberal Party, and France's Jean Monnet, both of whom rose along with Reston and later became good news sources. He also caught the eye of the New York Times's London Bureau Chief...
...sailor ($5,500 without sails), the 25-ft. New Horizons auxiliary sloop ($8,950 with sails), and the 41-ft. Bounty II with a new yawl rig to improve its racing potential. Newest members of the flotilla are the catamarans, which will easily outspeed many power boats. Among them: Pearson Corp.'s 17-ft. Tiger Cat ($1,795 without sails), which last year won the One-of-a-Kind Regatta against 39 other one-design small sailboats, and Catamaran Corp.'s 12-ft. Tiki ($995 without sails), which sleeps two, can be converted into an iceboat...