Word: address
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...Jerry Falwell, leader of a six-million-member conservative lobbying group, will give an address on the political influence of evangelists tonight in Ames Courtroom...
...With her address to students at New York University last week (see WORLD), Philippine President Corazon Aquino became the fourth major figure drawn from the personalities in the news to participate in the TIME Distinguished Speakers Program. Initiated by TIME three years ago as part of the festivities marking the magazine's 60th anniversary, the purpose of the program is to provide the outstanding men and women who have appeared on TIME covers with a platform from which to address students at colleges and universities across the country...
...eloquent half- hour address began and ended with standing ovations, and was interrupted by applause eleven times. It was, said House Speaker Tip O'Neill, the "finest speech I've ever heard in my 34 years in Congress." Above the din of cheering officials, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole said to Mrs. Aquino, "Cory, you hit a home run." Without missing a beat, Aquino smiled and shot back: "I hope the bases were loaded...
After her triumph in Washington, Aquino flew to New York City, where she met with business leaders in an effort to spur new investment in the Philippines and delivered an address in the TIME Distinguished Speakers series. At week's end she went to Boston to give a speech at Harvard and accept an honorary degree from Boston University, then visited her former home in suburban Newton, Mass., where she and her husband lived in exile for three years. She was scheduled to address the United Nations on Monday...
More than 400 people were in attendance last week at the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library of New York University in Manhattan to hear an address by Philippine President Corazon Aquino under the auspices of Distinguished Speakers Program and to ask her questions afterward. Excerpts from Aquino's remarks on the role the press played in the Philippine revolution...