Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...funeral train inched on and on through the waning day, hours behind schedule. From the rear platform, Ted Kennedy, with short, sad gestures, thanked the people for coming out. At Baltimore, a memorial service was held on the platform as the train passed through...
...plunge through the crush to reach the Embassy Room's main door. Bill Barry, his bodyguard, wanted to go that way despite the crowd; he did not like the idea of using a back passageway. Said R.F.K.: "It's all right." So they went directly behind the speaker's platform through a gold curtain toward a serving kitchen (see diagram) that led to the press room. The Senator walked amid a clutch of aides, hotel employees and newsmen, with Ethel a few yards behind. This route took him through a swinging door and into the hot, malodorous, corridorlike chamber that...
Strobes & Sadism. In what rapidly became an ambulatory return to uninhibited childhood, spectators first passed a wall of ten shimmering, plastic prisms designed by Charles Ross, next tripped up and over a glass-decked platform conceived by Stephen Antonakos, with giant candy-colored neon tubes flicking on and off in programmed patterns, lighting them from beneath and above. The experience told them exactly how an ant feels walking across a Coca-Cola sign. Then it was on to James Seawright's electronic cathedral, where their movements were recorded by an electronic brain that transmitted signals to each of twelve...
...another rare descent from his studied aloofness, De Gaulle had a "perroquet," or direct-line amplifier, linked up from the National Assembly to his palace office so that he could hear the debate. It was worth hearing; so long impotent, the Deputies finally had a platform, and some used it well. One was Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, former Gaullist Finance Minister and leader of the 43-member Independent Republicans, who are allied with the Gaullists. As he rose to speak, he glanced at the ornate skylight through which flooded the late-afternoon rays of the spring sun. "Never...
...party's 30 winning candidates were black, and Tucker is purposefully broadening party membership so that the proportion of black members will match the island's Negro majority (63%). Without any other strong issue, the opposition Progressive Labor Party resorted to racism, campaigning on a platform of independence from white Britain, limits on white immigration, and fiery attacks on the white United Bermudians. Last month, pre-election tensions and some bitter P.L.P. speeches had set off an ugly race riot in downtown Hamilton. It caused $1,000,000 in damage and forced the British Governor, Lord Martonmere...