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...ways people assess their College experience. Not so long ago having succumbed to a request for a series of "then" and "now" talks, I was speaking to a small group of alumnae and alumni in Palo Alto about changes in the College. I had barely reached the lectern when an elderly member of the audience, whose sixty-fifth reunion must have been history, rose to his feet to wonder whether life in the Yard had changed much since...
...President managed to turn the trip into a diplomatic double play. For 31 hours, he patiently waited in Fairbanks in order to cross paths with Pope John Paul II, whose plane was refueling there en route to South Korea (see WORLD). Posing with the Pontiff behind a lectern bearing the Presidential Seal, Reagan told a crowd of 5,000 standing in a cold drizzle that his trip to China had been a "long journey for peace." After the two leaders met privately in an airport lounge for 20 minutes, the Pope dropped Reagan off at Air Force One and returned...
When he reached the lectern Archibald Cox '34 received flowers, a polished red apple and several bottles of liquor, and when it was all over he got a standing ovation...
...seat just behind Chernenko's. A balding figure in a gray three-piece suit and wire-rim glasses, he fidgeted restlessly and riffled through the pages of his speech, which was bound in a red folder. Two hours before he stepped up to the polished, dark wood lectern to nominate Chernenko for President, his own name came up on a list of parliamentary committee chairmen. The neoclassical hall was wrapped in a post-luncheon lethargy and few delegates were in their seats when the announcement was made that Gorbachev had been appointed head of the Foreign Affairs Commission...
...left I was trying to avoid that debate, being too cautious." He was anything but cautious Friday afternoon, repeatedly assailing Hart by name in a press conference and then in a speech in the rotunda of the Maine capitol building in Augusta. Voice booming, face flushed, fists pounding the lectern, Mondale accused Hart of siding with Big Oil (by voting against the windfall-profits tax and proposing a $10 per bbl. fee on imported oil that would "add at least a full percentage point" to the inflation rate) and of pleasing "the hospital lobby" (by helping to kill...