Word: podium
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Seeking a new political start, Nixon challenged the popular Edmund ("Pat") Brown for the governorship of California in 1962, but was beaten by 300,000 votes (out of 5,850,000). Fatigued and haggard, Nixon mounted a podium at Los Angeles' Beverly Hilton Hotel the following morning and, to the astonishment of the assembled newsmen, lashed out angrily at them. "Just think how much you're going to be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around any more because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference...
After the United Auto Workers' biennial convention in Los Angeles cli maxed last week, the 3,000 delegates crowded to the podium to congratulate Leonard Woodcock, 63, on his election to a third term as president of the powerful 1.4 million-member union. But the solidarity was deceptive: only 24 hours earlier, tempers had flared in a free-swinging floor debate over his reelection...
...Caldwell because she does indeed know how to put on opera. As a producer and director, she has long since proved her wit, good taste and knack for motivating stage people. She has also emerged in the past few seasons as an uncommonly gifted conductor who waddles to the podium through the audience (there is no other approach in Boston's Orpheum Theater, an old vaudeville and movie house), slumps down into a canvas director's chair, then cajoles the dickens out of her pickup orchestra. All these talents were in evidence last week as Caldwell...
Without introduction, the tall, lean candidate in his dark-rimmed glasses and conservatively cut pin-stripe suit, appearing more like a professor than a politician, strode toward the podium. Only a huge photo of him and his 14-year-old daughter decorated the former chapel of a convent in Colmar. Then quickly, his hands clasped behind his back, Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 48, broke into the pedantic delivery that has become a trademark in his campaign to succeed the late Georges Pompidou as President of France...
Under pressure from the crowd, the councilors huddled around the mayor's podium, and moved quickly to a vote. As expected, Vellucci voted for controls, and the council voted 5-4 to retain the law. The council agreed to hold a special meeting, on the next night, to give demonstrators a chance to air their grievances. Fewer than 100 demonstrators showed up, joined by only six councilors. The worst of the Danehy storm was avoided...