Word: lecterns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Real Rough Go." Despite some idle talk to the effect that Goldwater did not really want to run and that President Kennedy's death would give him a graceful way to stay out, his announcement was no surprise. As his family watched near by, Barry leaned against a lectern to favor his right heel, which had recently been operated on for a calcium deposit. He read his formal statement more slowly and clearly than usual. He had, he said, decided to run "because I have not heard from any announced Republican candidate a declaration of conscience or of political...
...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...