Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Preparations for the day began from the moment on Sept. 9 that Paul VI announced his acceptance of U.N. Secretary-General U Thant's invitation to address the General Assembly. New York City police and FBI men, worried about an assassination attempt, pored through their files on anti-Catholic fanatics, wound up putting potentially dangerous types under surveillance. Detectives made the rounds of clerical supply stores, warned clerks to beware of any suspicious purchasers who might want to masquerade as clergymen. New York's Police Commissioner Warren Broderick groaned that his force would "be taxed to an extent...
...trying ordeal. To ease it, a special 1964 Lincoln Continental limousine was lengthened a full yard (to 20 ft. 10 in.) by a Chicago manufacturer and fitted with running boards so that it could carry 13 people-including six security guards. It was equipped with a battery-powered public-address system, a papal seat that could be raised seven inches, fluorescent lamps to illuminate the Pope, and a bubble-top covering (non-bulletproof) in case of rain. More than 75 television cameras and 500 personnel were assigned to give the visit the most intensive TV exposure ever concentrated...
...which usually finds itself in the role of the giver at such sessions, this time wanted something itself. It wanted what President Johnson called, in his address to the powerful members of the IMF, "a new and imaginative look" at the subject of world money reform...
...Yearbook staff has written programs which it will run on Harvard's data processing equipment. These programs will store on tape the name, class, college and home address of every Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduate, as well as all yearbook records...
Gartland also announced that the Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats next week will address and mail 50,000 letters supporting his and King's election...