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...Soviet invasion of Afghanistan is no different than Hitler's invasion of Russia, Brockunier announced to a group of several members of the audience and the press who gathered at the lecture podium to talk with Gerasimov...
...wear his football helmet back in college? Could he walk and chew gum at the same time? First, Ford nonchalantly knocked a tape recorder off the lectern while making a speech. Next, he and Edward Bennett Williams crashed into each other as the Washington attorney was leaving the podium. Once when a plate smashed to the floor, Ford's spokesman Bob Barrett took the microphone to tell the room, "That wasn't him. Believe me, it wasn...
...though to prove the truth of the slogans we chanted that evening. Secretary of State Shultz the next morning used the steps of Memorial Church as a podium from which to defend Ronald Reagan's thoroughly discredited "constructive engagement" with the fascist regime in South Africa...
Boston School Superintendent Laval S. Wilson and his Cambridge counterpart Robert Peterkin, who were involved in the planning of the program, joined University officials at the podium...
...White House stage managers have accordingly become adept at finding appropriate soapboxes and visual backdrops for the President, a series of Potemkin villages not to deceive a ruler but to catch the restless eye of his subjects. When Reagan worries about Republican defections in the farm belt, the presidential podium and the press corps are flown out to a state fair in Illinois, where he can speak against a backdrop of hay. Should there be a show of concern about the Middle East? Vice President Bush travels to see the friendlies in Israel, Jordan and Egypt. The press was driven...