Word: podium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strains of the Chinese national anthem sounded first last week on the south lawn of the White House, as summit protocol demands. Then the U.S. Army Band gave an equally rousing version of The Star-Spangled Banner. From a windswept podium on the crest of the low hill, the two leaders exchanged bland welcoming remarks, then mounted a balcony to acknowledge the applauding crowd of some 1,000 dignitaries. Suddenly, Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing departed from the traditional script. He impulsively grabbed Jimmy Carter's hand and held it high. They looked like a pair...
...time when family quarrels are forgotten," said Carter in his welcoming speech. Suddenly, a woman standing among reporters about 20 ft. from the podium began waving a copy of Mao Tse-tung's Little Red Book and screaming, "Teng is a murderer!" No sooner had U.S. Secret Service men dragged her away than a man perched on a platform erected for TV cameras shouted a paraphrase of one of Mao's sayings: "You cannot make this a garden party! You cannot stop the revolution!" Secret Service men carted him away too. Both were reporters for a Maoist press...
...contrast, at Voznesensky's reading last month in Joseph Papp's Public Theater in New York City, the poet created an atmosphere of almost monastic serenity. A large, white, Russian Orthodox church candle burning on the podium provided virtually the only lighting. "It is more intimate for you, my friends," Voznesensky explained to an audience that included Mstislav Rostropovich, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and C.P. Snow. As Poet William Jay Smith, a favored translator and friend, read English versions from Nostalgia for the Present, Voznesensky could be glimpsed in the wings, his slight figure rigid with apprehension...
...President held one. The Business Council, meeting up the street at the Mayflower Hotel and stuffed with such luminaries as Du Font's Irving Shapiro and Chase Manhattan's David Rockefeller, required equal wattage from the White House. After a long, tough day, Carter took the podium at nearly 9 p.m. with a smile and a confession: "Your own influence at times might be even underestimated by you." He talked and answered questions for nearly an hour, a worthwhile effort, as he calculated it, for his anti-inflation campaign...
...Washington. Administration officials told the newsmen that they had better get to the White House for an important announcement at 9. The callers gave no hint of what it would be about. Promptly on the hour, a grim-faced Jimmy Carter strode into a briefing room, climbed onto the podium and read a terse statement: "The continuing decline in the exchange value of the dollar threatens economic progress at home and abroad, and the success of our anti-inflation program ... It is now necessary...