Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eran and highly skilled impersonator of Mark Twain, sounding more like Chico Marx. Holbrook was performing for Lady Bird and Lynda Bird Johnson and a group of visiting college stu dents in the White House East Room when the President burst in, rushed up to the platform, grasped the actor's hand and said: "I always wanted to meet Mark Twain." Almost speech less, Holbrook forgot several subsequent lines, blew others, and later admitted: "I was really frightened." Among the Prestigious. Then came the annual presidential prayer breakfast, attended by some 1,000 men at the Mayflower Hotel. Evangelist...
...process is to give the people a choice among well-known candidates publicly committed to well-known views or policies," explains Glenn R. Winters, executive director of the American Judicature Society and a vigorous advocate of better methods for selection of judges. "A candidate for governor can have a platform and make campaign promises. What can a judge promise? To administer justice fairly and impartially to all who come before him. He can promise neither more nor less." Yet the judge's name appears near the bottom of a ticket, and it is the top candidates who usually...
Curious Whimper. The 50-minute work, performed without interruption, is more an oratorio than a symphony, with speaker (Bernstein's wife, Actress Felicia Montealegre), soprano (Jennie Tourel), the New England Conservatory Chorus, the Columbus Boychoir and a drastically altered orchestra: 17 string players were crowded off the platform to make way for a percussion section that had to man five timpani, three side drums, a bass drum, four kinds of cymbals, a tam-tam, three bongos, three temple blocks, a wood block, sandpaper blocks, rasp, whip, ratchet, triangle, maracas, claves, tambourine, chimes, glockenspiel, xylophone, vibraphone, celesta, piano and harp...
Location of the space center in Boston would constitute a political victory for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54, who campaigned in 1962 on a platform of bringing new industry to Massachusetts. Kennedy, who will run for re-election this year, was aided by Sen. Leverett Saltonstall '14 in the fight to get the center for Boston...
...Communist regimes are hungry enough for hard Western currency to relax travel restrictions and look the other way when East and West Berlin families gather for reunions counter to East German rules. When the night train from East Berlin pulls into Budapest's Keleti Talyaudvar (East Station), the platform scenes are moving replays of those that took place over the Christmas holidays in Berlin itself. Sweethearts fall into soundless clinches; old people weep as they see their grandchildren for the first time...