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...turning students away, with an authoritarian, "I'm sorry, you'll have to leave. I'm not allowing latecomers," Professor Bell says quite clearly that it is his position at the podium which is important to him, not teaching...
Lown and Chazov tore off their suit jackets, sprang from the podium and, along with other IPPNW physicians in the room, gave the fallen man cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The victim, Lev Novikov, 60, was put on a stretcher and taken to an Oslo hospital, where officials reported that he had suffered a heart attack. Novikov was later described as out of danger. Skeptics said that his collapse may have been staged, an allegation that Lown called "perverse." Concluded Chazov: "To win over death--you have now witnessed that it goes well for Soviets and Americans to cooperate in this task...
...moment. Although the color has faded somewhat, giving the film an antique air, the picture is sharp and clear. All in all, this Rosenkavalier captures the feeling of being there, right down to the sight of Karajan making his way energetically through the orchestra, hopping onto the podium and cuing the horns for their first dashing leap. There are no subtitles, so have your libretto handy...
...when in 1980 they proposed to enlist Pittsburgh corporations to help laid-off steelworkers. But then they turned to confrontation, disrupting church services attended by bank and steel executives, and ignored church orders to stop. After his defrocking at last week's synod in Greenville, Pa., Roth seized the podium and refused to leave the auditorium, shouting, "There is great corruption in the church!" He was arrested again, along with a fellow dissident minister, then released on the condition that he not go near the auditorium. Said Bishop James Crumley: "We're tired of (the controversy). We've been embarrassed...
During commencement ceremonies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, the institution's president, Father James Loughran, accidentally tumbled off the podium. After Loughran climbed back up unharmed, Commencement Speaker Peter Ueberroth, chief organizer of the 1984 Summer Olympics and now baseball commissioner, brought down the house by awarding him a 4.5 in gymnastics...