Word: lecterns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shyly as George solemnly introduced her as "the next Governor of Alabama," then gamely repeated her one memorized speech (average running time: one minute). After that, George, who for campaign purposes was billed as Lurleen's $1-a-year chief-adviser-to-be after November, pranced to the lectern and ranted on and on about his achievements as Governor since...
Ailing A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany limped painfully* to the lectern...
...crisscrossed the U.S. and Europe in this one-man show, brings it to Broadway with much fresh material culled from Twain's writings. The casual format is that of one of Twain's turn-of-the-century lectures when he was 70. The props are simple: a lectern, a Victorian chair, a pitcher of water, an omnipresent cigar from which Holbrook fires volleys of smoke like a snow-thatched Jove who has laid aside his thunderbolts for cheroots...
After unanimous Senate confirmation of Robert C. Weaver as Secretary of the new Housing and Urban Devel opment agency, the President swore in his first Negro Cabinet member in a grandiose East Room ceremony illuminated for TV's benefit by 27 spotlights. Johnson used a huge new electronic lectern with hidden microphones and retractable prompter screens that newsmen dubbed "Mother." (One correspondent asked if it could cook Lyndon's breakfast.) When Weaver had been duly anointed, Johnson produced a surprise by announcing that Lincoln Gordon, 52, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil since 1961, would succeed Peace Corps Director Vaughn...
Highlight of the week was a flight to Independence, Mo. Accompanied by his new lectern and a planeload of Harry Truman's old White House aides, Johnson went to pay tribute to the former President on the establishment of the Harry S. Truman Center for the Advancement of Peace at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Leaning heavily on his cane and looking all of his 81 years, Truman, in a speech read for him, said of the years since he began to fight the cold war: "It all seems to have been in vain. Memories are short and appetites...