Word: lectern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stool & Lectern. In 1953 Schwarz returned to this country again, developed his idea of a mass-effort Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, and eventually sold his medical practice in Sydney. Why did he do it? Explains Lillian May Schwarz, who remains in Australia with their three children and serves as secretary of the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade organization in her native country: "We feel that if Fred worked every hour of every day in Australia, he could not archieve nearly as much as he is achieving in America. If he awakens the U.S. to the full danger of Communism...
...Kennedy's views came out in his address later in the day before the massed members of the Canadian Parliament, who banged their desks in a traditional salute for Jackie when she entered the gallery, and banged them again for the President when he appeared behind the floodlit lectern just below the Speaker's throne...
...adventure never leave the mind; and the first days of a new President always remain vivid to his constituents. Few last week will forget the sight of the tense and nervous young man who stood, his white-knuckled hands clutching the sides of his lectern, to face the press and live national TV in his first presidential news conference. His performance-cool, controlled, knowledgeable-was hard to fault, as was his matter-of-fact handling of the return of imprisoned U.S. Airmen Freeman Bruce Olmstead and John McKone (see The Cold...
...Kennedy, under the U.S. Constitution, had been President of the U.S. since the stroke of noon. The Marine Band struck up America the Beautiful. Contralto Marian Anderson sang The Star-Spangled Banner. Then, as Boston's Richard Cardinal Cushing delivered his long invocation, smoke began wafting from the lectern. On and on the cardinal prayed-upward and upward poured the smoke. When Cardinal Cushing finished, Dick Nixon and several other volunteer firemen rushed to the lectern. The fire was located in a short-circuited electric motor that powered the lectern; the plug was pulled and the smoke drifted away...
...rest, that he must forget about politics, that he should live out his life at Hyde Park. In a tremendous confrontation, the hero slays the dragon and thenceforth is able to call his soul his own. In the final sequence, crutch-borne but triumphant, he hobbles up to the lectern where he will nominate Al Smith and resume the role that history had given him to play...