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...Castro declare all of Santiago a "hero of the republic" and bestow upon the city Cuba's highest honor, the Order of Antonio Maceo. Then all eyes shifted to the central balcony, where President Fidel Castro, 56, stood alone, his head bowed. Stepping to the lectern, Castro used words he had first uttered to a frenzied and much larger crowd from the same spot exactly 25 years earlier, announcing the overthrow of Dictator Fulgencio Batista: "The revolution begins...
...battle was over-and to the curators went the spoils. The blue-and-white lectern emblem proclaiming NATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 1977, which had hung for three hectic, fractious, exhilarating days in Houston, last week was headed for Washington's Smithsonian Institution. It will repose with such other memorabilia as the star-spangled banner that flew over Fort McHenry and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. And well it might...
Standing behind a lectern, John Houseman delivers the prologue, and on a June night in 1937, he lived it. It is the saga of a show that very nearly...
...lectern in London's Guildhall last week was Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who received this year's $170,000 Templeton Foundation Prize for Progress in Religion. The award, inaugurated in 1972 by U.S. Mutual Fund Wizard John M. Templeton, cited the Nobel-prizewinning Soviet exile as a "pioneer in the renaissance of religion in atheist nations" and a "living symbol of the continuing vitality of the Orthodox tradition of spirituality...
After his stints as assistant Solicitor General ("the best legal job in the Federal government") and as Director of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission ("a highly charged atmosphere"). Reich says he needed a spell in the libraries and behind the lectern. "In government, I had to be there from the early morning in meetings or on the telephone until late at night and I was dealing with mostly quite short range problems. Ideally, people in government especially the position I was in do need time to be reflective, to gain perspective, and to explore other facets." Reich also...