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Only 15 minutes remained before voting time. Illinois Republican Everett McKinley Dirksen, 68, the Senate's minority leader, arose slowly from his front-row desk. He was the man most were waiting to hear, not merely because he is the Senate's most practiced and professional orator but largely because...
Conant, who is attending his fiftieth class reunion, will be the Orator at the Literary Exercises of the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Sanders Theatre at 11 a.m. The Poet will be Theodore Morison '23, professor of English; Ralph N. Helverson, minister of the First Church Unitarian, Cambridge...
The keynote speaker was no mock orator either. Former Minnesota Congressman Walter Judd, who performed the same function at the 1960 Republican Convention in Chicago, told the collegians: "We must get a Republican elected who understands the world situation and not one who will crawl to get a concession. You...
Attention naturally focused on Greece's new young Regent. For the past eight years, Constantine has been carefully groomed to take over the throne. He was commissioned in the army, navy and air force, and often sat in when his father talked with government ministers. Tall, lean, and athletic...
The next French apostle of collective security was Aristide Briand, ten times Premier of France, a spellbinding orator who heralded Germany's 1926 entry into the League of Nations with the optimistic prediction: "There will be no more war." Briand clung tenaciously to the Foreign Ministry, explaining: "If I...