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Marcos responded by discarding a memorized four-paragraph speech for a longer, more emotional, off-the-cuff oration. The President of the Philippines paid feeling tribute to the President of the U.S.-who needs every encomium he can get. "We thank you for utilizing your powers with restraint and wisdom," said Marcos. "Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone." Thanking the U.S. for moving so swiftly after World War II to grant the Philippines independence after 48 years of colonial rule...
Erwin Dain Canham, L.H.D., editor in chief of the Christian Science Monitor and new president, the First Church of Christ, Scientist. Tough-minded but temperate, he authenticates the essential spirit of the encomium-a Christian gentleman...
Britain's Prime Minister William Gladstone called the Senate "the most remarkable of all the inventions of modern politics." Most Americans-excepting Senators-were then, and would be now, astonished at such an encomium. The Senate was formed chiefly because the smaller states feared that they would be outvoted and overwhelmed if the only legislative body was apportioned by population alone. To reassure them, the framers of the Constitution agreed to add a second House, in which each state, regardless of size, should have two delegates who should be selected by the state legislatures as "ambassadors" of their states...
...sang Poetess Marianne Moore in her 1955 encomium to the Brooklyn...
...Senate Judiciary Committee members, who then approved President Johnson's nominee for the $30,000-a-year lifetime judgeship (TIME, Oct. 8). There were, of course, turgid testimonials arranged by Morrissey's backers. Anticipating opposition in Senate subcommittee hearings, they put on ten witnesses and adduced an encomium from Richard Cardinal Gushing, who in 1956 christened Morrissey's tenth baby, Richard Gushing, in the first such ceremony ever televised...