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...including Caldicott, addressed the crowd. During her brief remarks on the medical effects of nuclear war, another speaker, Soviet dissident Un Tuvim, rushed onto the stage and tried to shout down Caldicott. The action sparked an angry reaction from the crowd and a television producer led Tuvim off the podium. Caldicott finished her speech...
...finally delivered, three hours after it had been accepted. He said about his successor Shultz: "My own knowledge of George and his experience, professionalism and integrity gives me the utmost confidence." Reagan and Haig both opened by announcing that they would answer no questions, and both left the podium quickly, ignoring shouts of "Why?" Reagan went by helicopter to Camp David shortly after his appearance. Later, a top White House aide was asked how Reagan felt about it all. The answer: "Just like he did after the New Hampshire primary," referring to the point in his campaign at which...
...hard time changing things back. "Seems every time I go to the stage, I have to prove myself," Holmes said. "I don't have to prove it to you or to the world, just to myself and my family Forty times, I've gone up to the podium." Forty times...
...spotlight on Harvard's unique platform is never brighter than on Commencement Day While the University will break with tradition this afternoon to honor one of its own classics scholar John H. Finley `25 the speakers who grace the Commencement podium often arrive with worldwide fame and they occasionally leave having changed history...
With golden medals glimmering on the breast of his dark suit, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev slowly made his way though the lilacs and carnations to the podium. "Glory! Glory!" chanted 6,000 exultant members of the Young Communist League as their ailing leader, in his deep and slurred growl, began to speak. But a dramatic hush descended over the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses when Brezhnev reached the heart of his 35-minute address. The Komsomol delegates knew, as did Washington and the rest of the world, that the Soviet leader was planning to answer Ronald Reagan...