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...Republican Senate primary was a triumph of sentimentality, a belated vicarious victory for native son Alfred Landon, who lost so spectacularly to Franklin Roosevelt in the 1936 Presidential Election. Landon's daughter, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, 46, a separated mother of four and former aide to incumbent Senator James Pearson, who is retiring, outpolled eight rivals, all of whom grumbled that they did not have her name. Indeed, she made the most of it. "A fresh voice," proclaimed her TV ads, "and a trusted name." Her father, a spry 90, did not participate much in the campaign, but he joined...
...Yale team, headed by Pediatrician Howard Pearson, examined 22 patients who had had damaged spleens removed after childhood accidents. Blood tests showed that in 13 of the patients, spleen-like filtering of the blood was apparently continuing, even though their spleens had been removed from one to eight years before the examination. Subsequent radioactive scanning of the abdomens of five of the 13 revealed small nodules of spleen tissue. What had happened, the doctors conclude in the New England Journal of Medicine, was that cells from the ruptured organ spilled out, became implanted in the walls of the abdominal cavity...
...manufacturer concerned about the "decay of virtue, public and private," began a school with a noble idea: to teach ''the great end and real business of living." The school itself was more humble: 13 students, ages six to 30, enrolled under the tutelage of Calvinist Eliphalet ("Elephant") Pearson in a converted carpenter's shop in Andover, Mass. "On Monday the scholars recite what they can remember of the sermons heard on the Lord's day previous," wrote Pearson in 1780. "On Saturday the bills are paid and the punishments administered...
...month-old report of the subcommittee on African affairs of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee helps provide much-needed answers to these complex problems. The subcommittee, chaired by Sen.Dick Clark (D-Iowa) and staffed by the late Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.) and Sen. James Pearson (R-Kans.), spent more than a year researching the topic. The subcommittee interviewed representatives of corporations and banks operating in South Africa as well as members of anti-apartheid groups. It investigated corporate labor and management policies in South Africa and analyzed the ways in which U.S. banks affect the finances of the Vorster...
...change English Canada from within. Convinced of the need to fight rising separatism, he entered national politics in 1965 as a Liberal member of Parliament from Mount Royal in Montreal. Three years later, after serving as Canada's Justice Minister and Attorney-General, he succeeded the late Lester ("Mike") Pearson as Prime Minister. During Trudeau's first election campaign, young girls?including his future wife?flung themselves at him. Businessmen asked for his autograph. Crowds gathered wherever he went. Said Trudeau in those palmy days: "However Canadians are classified, the needs of each must be recognized...