Word: podium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directing TIME'S 20 reporters was Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart. His principal command post was an advantageously placed row of seats and desks near the podium. Beside him sat his deputy and deskman extraordinary, Dick Duncan, amid a nexus of wires, phones and beepers with which he could dispatch one of TIME'S four floor reporters to cover a disturbance in the Ohio delegation or a fracas outside the hall...
...personality and his habit of shooting from the hip. Trained to shun publicity, they are scandalized by the fact that Knowles "talks in headlines" and gets a consistently good press. Last week the naturalized Brahmin moved to New York City to take over a new and more pow erful podium as president of the Rockefeller Foundation...
...Brien brought credentials committee chairwoman Patricia Robert Harris to the podium at 10:08 p.m., but her opening words following polite applause set a weary tone...
...been installed-the most elaborate system any convention has ever had. There are direct-line hookups to every candidate's hotel headquarters and all the candidates' special trailers, backed up to the Convention Hall. Each delegation chairman will have a red telephone and microphone connected to the podium; this year there will also be a white telephone mounted on the floor for every 15 delegates, so that every delegate can communicate with all others. For the first time, a closed-circuit television system will carry convention proceedings to virtually every hotel room within 30 miles of the hall...
Conductor André Kostelanetz figured that it might be fun to get together with his exwife, Soprano Lily Pons-at least for a concert. With Kostelanetz on the podium of Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall and Pons at 68 looking frightened and fragile, nostalgic fans found that time has left a bit of dust on Lily's middle voice but that the famous high tones are still silvery. After a soaring Estrellita, Lily got a standing ovation, then dodged her well-wishers and headed straight...