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...President, tightly wound and always on the offensive, scored the most points on substance; Reagan, with a relaxed, reassuring demeanor that belied the President's portrayal of him as dangerous, came out ahead on style. When at the end, Reagan bounded 15 ft. to Carter's lectern to shake hands, both men were ready to take comfort, if not complete satisfaction, from their efforts...
...early on that I would major, oops, concentrate, in Government, and I took the well-known courses--Government A, English A, Math A, History A and so on. Historian Frisky Merriam was walking across the stage of New Lecture Hall in 1926 and putting his feet up on the lectern, distracting his students. He was a character. Later on I had Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. in another history course. He told the story of some C-minus student who had to be told what femmes de guerre were. "Oh, I thought they were hors de combat," the fellow said. That...
...organized. Advancemen carry a check list of 106 items for every Reagan stop: staffers' hotel rooms must be at least one floor away from those occupied by reporters; the hotel's full restaurant menu, not just an abbreviated room-service version, must be available to Reagan and Nancy; the lectern from which the 6-ft. 1-in. Reagan is to give any formal speech must be precisely 43 in. high. But there was angry infighting that led to last week's shake-up (see box), and there are odd gaps. Strangely enough for a candidate with Reagan's acting experience...
That evening, as Carter stood at the polished walnut lectern, he looked nervous for only a moment, first licking and then biting his upper lip. Then he began moving somberly but smoothly through the 32-minute address, before a packed audience of top Administration officials, Supreme Court Justices, Congressmen, Senators and diplomats?and a TV audience of tens of millions...
...after the University of Tübingen's holiday break, the classroom was jammed with 300 students and onlookers. Another 300 next door listened in via loudspeaker. The Vatican may have declared him unfit to be considered a Roman Catholic theologian, but Father Kung was back at his Tübingen lectern, at which he has taught since 1960 and now occupies as bestselling author, West German celebrity and a focus of Catholic theological rebellion...