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...Stew Udalls, the Orville Freemans, the Arthur Goldbergs and assorted White House aides, including Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Larry O'Brien. The guests of honor were the President's sister Patricia and her actor husband, Peter Lawford. There was, of course, the dance music of the comparable Lester Lanin...
Said Liberal Leader Lester Pearson: "It is clear that the Tory government has been decisively rejected" But even though Diefenbaker had lost 85 seats, the election message was by no means that clear. The Liberals had had strong hopes of winning, but only succeeded in climbing from 51 seats...
...specially drawn Canadian political cartoon (see cut) straight out of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Canada's leading cartoonist, Duncan MacPherson, aware that the summer Shakespearean season at Stratford, Ontario, coincided with the June 18 national election, put his Prime Minister John Diefenbaker (center) and Liberal Opponent Lester Pearson (holding the lion) in the motley of a couple of Shakespearean comics. He didn't try to indicate the winner, which, to judge by Canada's latest Gallup poll, is a risky business...
Just two weeks to go before Canada's national elections. Liberal Leader Lester ("Mike") Pearson, the challenger, was brimming with confidence. "A tide is sweeping across the country-and we will elect a Liberal government with a clear majority," said Pearson as he campaigned through the western strongholds of Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. A Nobel prizewinner and a somewhat reticent diplomat, Pearson seemed less ill at ease on the hustings than the last time he electioneered...
...Diefenbaker shows occasional flashes of the evangelical fire of the prairie lawyer that carried him to power in 1957 and again in 1958, but too often seems curiously defensive. Behind stolid placards intoning CARRY ON, JOHN (the Pearson adherents do no better with: BESTER WITH LESTER), Diefenbaker earnestly justifies the benefits of a devalued dollar in terms of increased trade, talks of recent improvements in unemployment, rising income and production. As to devaluation: "The only people who can be annoyed are those who want to visit the U.S." Finally, realizing that he was not getting through, Diefenbaker announced...