Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Living in the cellar of the building, directly under the delegates' feet, were six hogs and four cows. The cows were equipped with windows through which scientists peered into their stomachs. And upstairs, on the wall directly opposite the speakers' platform, was a six-foot-high, full-color portrait of a prize bull...
...could no longer be used to keep Negroes from registering. Nonetheless, in a state that has found endless ways to defy federal authority on racial issues, the new voting law is a signal victory for Governor Paul B. Johnson. Though he won office two years ago on a segregationist platform, Johnson has since tried to lead his state along a more moderate path...
President Sukarno's Anniversary Day speeches are usually something to behold. His head bobbing furiously, a finger jabbing at the sky, he loves wild histrionics that send crowds into chanting, clapping frenzies. But last week as 60,000 gathered before the canopied platform at Merdeka Palace, Indonesia's ruler put on a strangely muted, flat and unspirited show. He called his speech "Reach for the Stars," but it did not get off the ground...
...that the brooding, red brick building across from the courthouse is the U.S.'s oldest unaltered art gallery still standing.* Founded in 1871, the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum grew out of the 19th century fashion for industrial tycoons to dabble in the arts. Horace Fairbanks, whose uncle invented the platform scale, and whose family built the invention into the Fairbanks scale works, made the standard trip to Europe, returning with the usual milky-white copies of classics. Back home, he acquired works by the then-in-vogue Hudson River School painters, built the gallery to house the overflow. Fairbanks...
...already been circulating a non-proliferation draft, and the U.S. has been readying a document of its own to put before the committee. If this was not the subject uppermost in Russian minds, then, diplomats guessed, they might not want anything more at Geneva than a daily public platform for berating the U.S. about Viet...