Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civil rights organizations-the N.A.A.C.P., the National Urban League and King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference-boycotted the sessions. Their fears were confirmed. For the first time in CORE's history, the Black Muslims and other extreme Ne gro nationalists were not only permitted to share the platform but were favorably mentioned by the convention's leaders. The hall rang with chants of "Black power! Black power! Black power!" Said one shocked Roman Catholic nun, who was among the relatively few whites present: "This is the Congress for Racial Superiority...
...Atlantic from New York in 35 hours, reach Viet Nam from San Francisco in 72 hours. Powered by gas and turbine engines and traveling on cushions of air, the ship could quickly transport troops to trouble spots, be adapted as a high-speed aircraft carrier or as a moving platform for deploying anti-missile missiles and ICBM batteries at sea. Though the program is still in the model stage, the Navy believes that it can have a seagoing version within a decade, feels that the ship will completely change naval warfare...
...Adams proved himself far from immutable. He agreed to have his original 55-page platform scrapped, and work was begun on a more radical one. His denunciations of the war became more pointed; he affiliated himself with Reverend Wood in the latter's dispute with Mrs. Hicks; he issued, indirectly, a powerful statement before a meeting of the Mothers for Adequate Welfare in Boston...
...figurehead proffered in the name of unity, Gengras is an outspoken progressive who wants to reform party and state. He accuses the G.O.P. of being "boring, dull, unimaginative," demands "vitality, energy, creativity and spunk." He wanted-and got-a liberal platform that promises everything from more schools, parks and roads to an increased minimum wage and tougher enforcement of antidiscrimination laws. He also nailed down a plank denouncing the John Birch Society. "A Republican Party that plays footsie with the Birch Society and the radical right," said Gengras, "cannot win and does not deserve to win." The vociferous minority...
...white uniforms with gold braid. On all sides of him, applauding ceremoniously, stood the 546 members of the Provisional People's Consultative Congress, his nation's highest legislative body. Ratna Sari Dewi, his lovely young Japanese wife, smiled down from the diplomatic box. When he mounted the platform and took his seat, three military aides appeared with orange juice, tea, and his eyeglasses. When he rose to speak, they popped up behind him to hand him his text a few pages at a time. But did Sukarno feel at home? Hardly...