Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Type. Symbols of unity and progress napped like so many ensigns at fleet review. Barry Goldwater sounded like a man from the N.A.A.C.P. New York's John Lindsay agreed to second Agnew's nomination rather than serve as the rallying point for opposition to it. The platform, the keynote address, Nixon's acceptance speech and the subsidiary verbiage were on the whole impeccably progressive in tone, promising jobs, justice, education and a "piece of the action" to the poor, peace in Viet Nam, honorable conciliation with the Communists...
...catalogue of complaints grows fatter. Curious to learn what was in the badly battered package delivered by the postman, a Cleveland physician ripped off the wrapping and released a swarm of furious bees. Intended for a beekeeper in Columbus, Ga., the parcel had mysteriously acquired the doctor's address en route. In Los Angeles, a couple delightedly opened a two-pound box of Dutch chocolates, only to find a soupy goo inside. Their gift had languished for six months in a local postal warehouse before delivery...
...robed prelates of the church in Greece were shocked that many of the American priests were clean shaven and wore suits. They also complained that the visitors were hell-bent on "de-Hellenizing" Orthodoxy. Archbishop Iakovos, head of the American church, took note of this hostility in his opening address at the 1,800-year-old Theater of Herodes Atticus near the Acropolis. "It sometimes seems to us," he said, "that you keep us at a distance, that you consider us strangers. Let it not be heard from your lips, that we have strayed from Hellenism...
Before the address, McCarthy people will hold a rally on the Boston Common featuring speeches by Michael Feber 2G, recently convicted of conspiracy against the draft, and George Wald, professor of Biology and winner of the Nobel Prize...
...last big push for public support will be Thursday on National McCarthy Day. McCarthy will address closed circuit television audiences at rallies in "41 cities across the country," a press statement said. Commercial television (channel 56) will carry the speech in Boston...