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...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. Over a weekend and a day, American women had reached some kind of watershed in their own history, and in that of the nation...
...eyes were tinted red, and the lines beneath them were more pronounced than usual. As he strode toward the narrow lectern in the Executive Office Building, he forced only a slight smile. In rare defeats in the past Jimmy Carter has kept himself grimly in control. But as he announced Budget Director Bert Lance's resignation last week, Carter twice almost lost his composure. Voice choking, eyes misting with tears, the President paused, bit his lip and declared: "Bert Lance is my friend...
Sometimes rapping the lectern for emphasis, Schlesinger continued: "Since World War II, we have had a phenomenal rate of malusage so that in each decade-the '50s and the '60s-the world consumed more than had been used up in all previous human history. Oil production should peak out around the world in the early 1990s. The world, which is now consuming about 60 million bbl. a day, faces a limit on production somewhere around 75 million or 80 million bbl. a day. That means in five years' time we may have chewed up most...
Mythical Menace. Last week, in a major speech before a congress of Soviet trade-union leaders, Brezhnev excoriated Carter's human rights policy in extraordinarily strong terms. Hammering furiously on the lectern, the Russian declared that such "interference in the internal affairs of the Soviet Union," plus a "slanderous campaign" in the U.S. about the "myth" of the Soviet military menace, stood in "direct opposition to further improvement of Soviet-American relations." He attacked "Washington's claim to teach others how to live" when, he said, neither U.S. domestic nor foreign policy can justify moralizing...
There he stood, next to a lectern in the Science Center yesterday, surrounded by a wide-eyed group of unmistakable Government majors. Each one would politely ask a question, allow McCarthy two or three seconds to say two or three words, then proceed to explain to the former Senator why he, the Gov major, was right and McCarthy was wrong. McCarthy was patient. He continued to express himself in soft, subdued tones. I'm not sure anybody was listening...