Word: addresses
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...program included a dinner for the descendants of inventor Alexander Graham Bell and of his assistant, Thomas Watson. An address by science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke on "Communications in the Second Century of the Telephone" and a stamp commemoration also highlighted the event...
Holcombe said that during his leave he will continue to press for the removal of the latest suspension from his work record. On Thursday, he will address a forum on Harvard's "labor problems" and their bearing on his case...
...billion, cancel production of the B-l bomber, but go ahead with the Trident submarine. Worried about the dangers of the nuclear arms race, Carter is convinced that the President must make nuclear disarmament a firmly fixed national goal. He tells his audiences that in his inaugural address he would state clearly the commitment of the U.S. Government to a "zero goal"?the elimination of all nuclear weapons in the world through multilateral negotiations. He admits, however, that the goal will probably not be reached "in my lifetime...
...campaign style is to give fairly general speeches, then throw the meeting open to specific questions. Carter usually makes a genuine effort to respond adequately and will often ask his questioner if the answer was satisfactory. But he rarely delivers a formal, policy address from a text, and while he has issued a series of brief position papers, he has made little or no effort to lay out his proposed policies in full detail. One reason: he lacks the kind of large professional staff maintained by his opponents from Congress. Still, in his day-to-day campaigning, Carter...
Brezhnev's keynote address, delivered in the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses, lasted more than five hours. Listening intently were some 5,000 Soviet delegates and hundreds of foreign guests, including Cuba's Fidel Castro (who sported the only full beard in the hall), North Viet Nam's Le Duan, Italy's Communist Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer and his Portuguese counterpart, Alvaro Cunhal. Brezhnev's speech seemed carefully crafted to convey a double message. While it extolled the benefits of détente-of which Brezhnev has been Moscow's principal architect...