Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than ten minutes, the red-faced mayor of Chicago stood there, trying to make himself heard. Finally, eying the front rows of seats where the most vociferous group of hecklers was seated, Daley snapped: "I recognize a contingent of the Republican Party is here." He marched off the platform and headed for his limousine...
...Irish barnyard and a mighty buss from a motherly country cousin. There was a hushed moment as two men of different ages and ideas-Kennedy and Adenauer-knelt and prayed together in the vaulted, 14th century Cathedral of Cologne. There was, as viewed from a West Berlin platform, the grim edifice of the Wall. More than anything else, there were the crowds, crying, "Ken-ah-dee! Ken-ah-deel Ken-ah-deel" And in their ecstasy of admiration, they pummeled the President in a fashion that must have given his doctors heart failure...
...third day, India's Aruna Asaf Ali charged China with blocking all efforts to settle the Himalayan war with India. Out of their seats bounced two diminutive Chinese delegates who legged it to the platform in slit skirts to demand time for rebuttal, their heated words duly translated by an interpreter. A Russian official frantically wrapped her hands around the microphone; British Chairman Dr. Joan Carritt vainly jangled a bell; pro-Soviet delegates added to the uproar by shouting that the Chinese should stand down...
...imperialism!" Strong-armed Russian males formed a human wall between the reporters and the Chinese as the exasperated chairman adjourned the meeting. The role of peacemaker fell to Guinea's Jeanne Martin, president of the Pan-African Women's Conference, who got the Chinese ladies off the platform by promising them a later chance to speak...
...night before Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt was to dedicate a new archbishop's palace in Ciudad Bolívar, 275 miles southeast of Caracas, two men were caught planting a time bomb behind a wall near the speakers' platform. Who were they? Members of the Communist Party, and allies of Cuba's Fidel Castro. His patience stretched to the breaking point, Betancourt at first ordered the arrest of every one of the country's estimated 40,000 Communists, Castroites and far-leftists, but later amended the order to cover only "activists...