Word: addresses
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Delegates to the Massachusetts Dem ocratic Convention in West Springfield were disappointed when Teddy Kennedy's telephoned voice from Washington came over the public-address system. Teddy had planned to be on hand to accept his Senate renomination by acclamation. But now, because of the vote on the civil rights bill, he would be delayed. So would Indiana's Senator Birch Bayh, who was scheduled to be the convention keynote speaker. "I want every one to know that I am a candidate this next year, even though I'm hundreds of miles away," said Teddy...
...view with variations had its adherents across the Atlantic. In a commencement address at St. John's University in Jamaica, L.I., former U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce warned that Red China, now "isolated militarily and economically by both U.S.S.R. and U.S. policy," might turn desperately aggressive. In Southeast Asia, said she, "we must hold firm even if it becomes necessary to wield a nuclear stick over the head of Mao Tse-tung." But, added Speaker Luce, there are other ways to stop Chinese expansionism. "For example, what argument can be made for our present policy of trading...
...days later Johnson drew some 175,000 people to the streets of Worcester, Mass., en route to another commencement address at Holy Cross College. There, he expressed again his lofty hopes for "the Great Society." Even if the cold war should end, Johnson warned, the world would find itself "on a new battleground as filled with danger and fraught with difficulty as any ever faced by man." The fight then, he said, would be "to build a great world society-a place where every man can find a life free from hunger and disease-a life offering the chance...
...Dreams of G.M. Lady Bird, meanwhile, wrapped herself in the black and white robe given her two weeks before with an honorary degree at Texas, turned up at Harvard Memorial Church to give the baccalaureate address to 252 graduates of Radcliffe. She urged the girls to remain feminine. An educated woman, she said, "does not want to be a long-striding feminist in low heels, engaged in a conscious war with men." Nor should she hold "glamorous images of herself as ambassadress or dreams of glory as she takes over the presidency of General Motors." Instead, advised Mrs. Johnson...
...Nash, professor of religion at the University of North Carolina, said in a baccalaureate sermon at Vanderbilt University that graduates should "view the universe as an ordered place with a purpose," not see life as "just one damn thing after another." But Vanderbilt Chancellor Alexander Heard, making the commencement address there, saw a world in revolt, "a world running wild with no place for minds standing still." Chicago Advertising Executive Lee King, at Northwestern, said that "our deadly malady is a disappearing supply of the creative resource," while at Pomona Ambassador (to Mexico) Fulton Freeman saw students "coming into creative...