Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Calif., he halted his motorcade in mid-procession to change a wilted shirt for a fresh one. In Sharon, Pa., he lost his wristwatch and cuff links to a mob of squealing girls. At Erie, a contingent of 63 teen-age Demzelles formed a corridor between Hubert's platform and his limousine, begged to be allowed to kiss him. Each got her wish as Hubert beamingly worked his way down the line, allowing all 63 girls a peck. It looked like more fun than kissing babies...
...Schollander, a Yale freshman, won his third gold medal, setting a world record in the 400-meter freestyle with a 4:12.2 clocking. Lesley Bush, a 17-year-old from New Jersey, surprised defending champion Ingrid Kramer-Engel of Germany in woman's platform, diving. The women's 400-meter freestyle relay team took another gold medal for the U.S. Ian O'Brien of Australia won the 200-meter breaststroke in a world record 2:27.8 with America's Chet Jastremski third...
...Miller, it must have seemed to be just one of those weeks. In Laramie, Wyo., he paced the locker room of the University of Wyoming field house for one hour before windy speakers who preceded him at a political rally had finished and he was summoned to the platform...
...ponder what he has seen and heard. There is scarcely time enough to keep up with the candidate. Last week Barry Goldwater's party, traveling by train for a spell, pulled so abruptly out of the station in Athens, Ohio, that about 30 newsmen were stranded on the platform...
...stage version, an express train stops unexpectedly at Guellen, a poverty-stricken village somewhere in Central Europe. Onto the platform sweeps "the richest woman in the world," a flamboyant beldame whose effects include a wooden leg, a pair of eunuchs, a caged panther and an empty coffin. She has returned to her birthplace seeking revenge. She offers a fortune to Guellen and its citizens in exchange for the life of one man, now a local merchant, who seduced her when she was 17, left her pregnant and dishonored after hiring perjurers to testify to her lewdness. "The world made...