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...Stool. Almost hidden by a 4-foot lectern, Mme. Nhu held forth for 90 minutes. At one point, someone brought over a bar stool and lifted her aboard, but after a moment she asked to have it removed. "I am more comfortable standing up," she said...
...Roads. In the debate on the House floor, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills, who conferred with White House Aide Larry O'Brien while guiding the bill through the House, applied the clincher in a lectern-thumping, 35-minute speech. Never in his 25 years in Congress, he said, had he at first held so many reservations about any bill. But he had decided that it "is the most important legislation affecting the economic front here at home" that he had ever presented to the House...
There were two separate confrontations between Wallace and the federal officials. In midmorning, Katzenbach rode up in a border patrol car and strode purposefully to the doorway. There Wallace stood waiting. He had a lectern in front of him, a microphone draped from his neck and a swarm of state troopers near by. As Katzenbach reached the spot, Wallace snapped out a crisp command: "Stop...
Unity in diversity was once (perhaps it still is) a legitimate Harvard goal, at any rate so long as the late Roger Bigelow Merriman '02 paced before the lectern in History 1. We may therefore invoke his memory in reminding ourselves that unity does not necessarily mean identity. After all, as the late George Santayana '36 the philosopher declared wisely: "The Negro, if he is not a fool, loves his own inspiration, and expands in the society of his own people...
When Mark Van Doren delivered his first lecture at Harvard last February a capacity crowd jammed the hall. They filled every seat, every inch of floor space, window ledge and platform until the man at the lectern was practically engulfed Looking somewhat bewildered by the crush of humanity Van Doren stood quietly, hand touched lightly to his chin in a characteristic gesture...