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Canada's 14th Prime Minister, Lester Bowles Pearson, was never quite comfortable as a public person. The trouble was, as he once recalled, "I was never able to make a platitude sound like a pronouncement, or an indiscretion sound like a platitude." It was a forgivable flaw. But it prevented Pearson, while head of Canada's Liberal Party, from ever winning a majority in Parliament. It also helped make his term as Prime Minister (from 1963 to 1968) one of the most boisterous and fractious in Canadian history. Yet even before he died last week of cancer...
...hard to get a better lift. They wear Italian cut shoes and gaudy shirts and tight pants and they play basketball in Converse All-Stars with purple shoe-laces; an acquired habit from the blacks to the north. Downtown Chicago is virtually an unknown quantity; they buy at Lester's and Gasmans and the supermarts and the small delis...
...down the aisle while reassuring the passengers that they had nothing against them. At José Martí terminal in Havana one of the gunmen disembarked to dicker with Cuban officials; he returned two hours later grousing: "These people here treat you worse than George Wallace or Lester Maddox." The plane headed back to the U.S. and eventually landed at McCoy A.F.B. in Orlando. There the odyssey nearly ended in disaster. After the hijackers demanded to talk to President Nixon, the word came down from Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray that the plane had to be stopped. Agents with...
Houthakker debated Lester Thurrow, professor of Economics at MIT and economic adviser to McGovern. Thurrow admitted that he came prepared to discuss "where do we go from here, now that Nixon...
Petulla is one of the most interesting American films of the 60's, and at times is not only ambitious, but successful. It marked an abrupt about-race for Director Richard Lester, who had previously been known for the Beatle films, and for his ground-breaking anti-war phantasmagoria How I Won the War. The story of an affair between two upper-middle-class eccentrics, Petulia makes audiences uncomfortable because both parties are messed up, and can't come together in a way which would help them grow. It also aroused the more chauvinistic American critics because of its depiction...