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...Flourishes. A swarm of presidential advancemen descended. They made a number of requests of Meany: an offstage microphone for announcing the President's arrival, a union band to strike up Ruffles and Flourishes and Hail to the Chief, a seat of honor to the right of the podium for the President to occupy while Meany made the introduction, removal of delegate seats in front of the speakers' stand to make room for live television cameras, banishment from the press area of reporters covering the convention so that there would be space for White House correspondents...
...appearing before the biennial convention of the AFL-CIO in Bal Harbour, Fla., a day after it had instructed the labor members of the Pay Board not to cooperate in forming Phase II wage guidelines (see THE ECONOMY). President George Meany even refused a White House request to have Hail to the Chief accompany Nixon's entrance. During the speech, some of Nixon's pleas for labor support in carrying out Phase II were greeted with snide laughter...
...delegates showed their hostility to Nixon in other ways than the resolution. They accorded him one of the most discourteous welcomes in the recent annals of presidential ceremony. The band was ordered not to strike up Hail to the Chief, the President's customary entry flourish, and Meany introduced the President with a few perfunctory words. Nixon went out of his way to appear conciliatory by recalling the hardhat marches of 18 months ago. "When the intellectuals were protesting, 150,000 workers marched down Wall Street to support me," he said. "I want you to know that I appreciate...
...TIME and other once sensible voices hail this rapprochement with mainland China as a coup for Nixon? It is the long-overdue attempt to correct an absurd situation of our own making. Other heads of state have recognized the reality of the People's Republic of China, but none has been credited with a diplomatic victory...
...spreading tree. Be-tjak (three-wheeled ricksha) drivers wore polo shirts imprinted with it. Practically every civil servant in the sprawling archipelago nation sported a button emblazoned with the symbol. Radio and television stations frequently played a song extolling the tree, traditional symbol of security, as the place "to hail while expecting the blessings...