Word: platformed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incongruous against the stock California political backdrop-a marimba band, Japanese girls, a flame swallower in vaquero costume. Knowland moved carefully among some 300 people, here pausing for a solemn word, there posing with a tight grin for a photograph, all the while working toward the speaker's platform. Once he got there, Knowland wasted little time on howdy-dos, plowed straight away into his speech. "I know of no campaign," rumbled Oakland Tribune Assistant Publisher Knowland, "that may determine the fate of California and the U.S. as much as this...
...Place de la Republique their own parade ground, the government took such zealous security measures that the ceremony was robbed of all spontaneity and enthusiasm. More than 4,000 police ringed the square; and only about 10,000 Gaullists with special invitations were permitted near the speakers' platform. Away back, behind an imposing network of steel barricades manned by police and young Gaullist strongmen, were less-favored citizens of Paris-some 70,000 of them...
...speech's end De Gaulle broke into the Marseillaise, and the crowd took up the anthem. Then, apparently troubled by his lack of contact with the audience, De Gaulle descended from the platform. To the consternation of the police protecting him, the general, lost without his glasses, lunged past barriers, mingled with the crowd, smiling and shaking hands. As the crowd headed home, stone-hurling Communists, shouting "Fascism Shall Not Pass," clashed with club-wielding police. Red-bereted ex-paratroopers, spoiling for a fight with the Reds who had helped spoil the Gaullist show, joined in. Angered...
...Tokyo Bay, beating the Eiffel Tower by 65 ft. Designed by Aerodynamics Expert Isamu Kamei to withstand 210-m.p.h. winds at its top and an earthquake twice as violent as the one that leveled Tokyo in 1923. the $7,000,000 tower will boast a glass-enclosed observation platform and restaurant at 400 ft. (about 30 stories high). Nestled between the tower's four legs will be a five-story building housing TV studios...
...bespectacled, grey-haired commuter, catches the 7:34 out of Port Washington, L.I. each workday morning for Manhattan's Penn Station, where he changes to the subway for his Columbus Circle office. Like many another straphanger, Donner has a habit of leaning out impatiently over the subway platform to see whether his train is coming. Last week the uptown train roared in for Fred Donner, 55. In a major shift of General Motors personnel, Financial Vice President Donner was tapped to succeed retiring President Harlow Curtice as boss of the world's largest industrial corporation...