Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Welensky's job was not at stake, he put his prestige behind Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead. Both were routed by the far-right Rhodesian Front, which won 54% of the predominantly white vote with a platform scarcely distinguishable from the apartheid practiced across the border in South Africa. Under posters showing the legs of white and black schoolgirls standing side by side, the Front blared: "Rhodesia is not ready for this...
...leading musicians in his image? "The new Deputies," says TIM, "have no program except fidelity to De Gaulle. They struck me as resembling an orchestra which follows every movement of the conductor's baton-to the very tenth of a second. Formerly the National Assembly was a platform for soloists. There were first violins doing their act-all kinds of virtuosos performing. Now we have arrived at an age which has a real conductor and an ensemble following his baton." PULLING together the story for De Gaulle's seventh appearance on the cover (the first...
...operation for a cataract on one eye, and vision in the other is dim. Yet vanity makes him try to avoid wearing glasses in public. At last week's funeral of ex-President René Coty, De Gaulle walked ponderously up to the stairs leading to the platform. He put on his glasses and momentarily studied the steps, then whipped the glasses off and strode giraffe-like toward the top. Sure enough, he stumbled over an unnoticed ridge en route...
...customary aplomb," said the lawyer for monocled Actor Martyn Green, 63, whose $350,000 negligence suit against a Manhattan parking garage was tossed out of court. Three years ago, Green's left leg was amputated after it was crushed between the garage's self-service elevator platform and the shaft wall; an ambulance intern had to borrow a penknife from a cop to perform the operation. But an all-male jury agreed that Green had no claim. He was operating the elevator himself because he didn't trust the garage attendants to park his M.G. sports...
...last Thursday night, filling the entire second half of her recital with a remarkably undistinguished lot of songs by Granados, de Falla, Montsalvatge, and the Brazilian Villa-Lobos. There were cradle-songs and tormented Flamenco--like songs, and two or three varities of that hardy perennial of the concert platform, the "delightful" song about a timid or a talkative lover, which ends with an exasperated little yelp from the singer (and polite titters from the old ladies in the audience). On a balmy night in Barcelona, a few of these songs might have been pleasant; it was, in fact...