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...introductory lecture yesterday, Rosovsky, according to students, told an overflow Science Center crowd that he was, well, pleased to be back at the lectern...
...bait or rattle Reagan in the hope of making him seem shaky or befuddled, and they wanted to cushion the challenger's shots as much as possible. Baker insisted that the President, who is slightly hard of hearing, be allowed to attach an audio-amplification device to his lectern to enable him to hear questions better...
...morning of its 30th anniversary, Northside Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C., was filled with more than 3,300 well-groomed parishioners and visitors. At the lectern, Republican Senator Jesse Helms, avatar of the Moral Majority, gazed out approvingly at the congregation. These were Helms' kind of people: religious, conservative, white. "We live in a time when secular humanism is demanding that our nation divest itself of religion," intoned Helms. "There is a cacophony of voices-political, news media, television, movies-mocking the very moral and spiritual base from which America came to be a great nation." The speech...
...punched around by Reagan," to "stop acting like a gentleman and come out fighting, to come out slugging." Mondale indeed tried to show the fire that earned him the name Fighting Fritz during the primaries. He stripped off his jacket, pulled down his tie and pounded on the lectern. Yet even when giving impassioned speeches in his shirtsleeves, he still appeared, particularly on television, to be stiff, mechanical and uninspiring. Despite his strong social conscience and heartfelt political convictions, Mondale often seems incapable of conveying an aura of zeal or inspiring passion...
Standing hunched over a plastic lectern at the right side of the stage in Toronto's Royal York Hotel was Canada's silver-haired new Prime Minister, John Turner, 55. Across from him was Brian Mulroney, 45, a jut-jawed businessman from Quebec who heads the opposition Conservative Party. In the final of three televised debates last week, the leaders of Canada's two largest political groups were sharing the spotlight with the New Democratic Party's Edward Broadbent, who has placed a distant third in the polls. With little to lose, Broadbent was the most...