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Hungry for an election that he is confident would make him Prime Minister. Liberal Leader Lester Pearson led off with the longest speech of his parliamentary career (three hours and five minutes) and closed it with the shortest (18 words) no-confidence motion in Parliament's history. He accused the Conservatives of "a major political fraud" in hiding last June's critical run on Canada's foreign-exchange reserves until the election was safely over, indicted the government's tight-money austerity program as the wrong cure for the country's economic ailments. Diefenbaker retorted...
Jackie made the most of Lester Lanin's music. To the tune of Never on Sunday, she tripped a nimble fox trot with the Colombian ambassador; while she was dancing with France's Ambassador Alphand, Millionaire Charles Wrightsman, a Palm Beach neighbor, cut in. President Kennedy proved more of a wanderer than a dancer; he frequently left the presidential table to greet and joke with guests. Totally relaxed, he seemed solemn only once, during a ten-minute chat with Brother Bobby, presumably about the crisis in Mississippi. He was coaxed onto the floor twice, dancing with his sister...
Playing for Time. The Diefenbaker government, bidding for time to restore its shattered fortunes, is determined to govern as long as the House will have it-or at least until John Diefenbaker senses an advantageous issue on which to go to the country. Nobel Prizewinner Lester B. Pearson's opposition Liberals, controlling 100 seats and sensing that their time is ripe, are equally keen to bring the Tories down for an election, if possible before Christmas. The government's life thus hangs by the thread of approval of two minor parties that hold the tender balance of power...
Actually, the first crack in the dam was when Lester ("Pres") Young introduced a new school of vibratoless tone and long, extended solo lines. Young was Hawkins' strongest challenger, and it was Pres who begat Getz and the cool school. Most musicians consider Hawkins and Young the two great tenor influences...
...cohorts live up to the demands of the musical, but without any great distinction. Lester James finds the higher parts of the tenor lead somewhat too demanding and resorts to bleating on occasion. As Manon, Constance Lambert does well enough with a nebulous part. Lights, costumes, choreography, and the chorus each show professional handling. The musical director Robert Mandell deserves particular praise for the lush sound he gets out of his orchestra. At North Shore, the orchestra is located in a box-like enclosure that funnels out into the theatre, and this fact may account for the volume and fullness...