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...Supreme Court's annual report to the convention of the American Bar Association is usually a businesslike survey of problems of court administration, touching on such issues as jurisdiction and clogged dockets. This year, however, was an explosive exception. When Warren Burger stepped to the podium at last week's A.B. A. meeting in Houston, he zeroed in on a single, highly charged topic-violent crime-and let loose a broadside at the nearly "impotent society" that had failed to come to grips with it. "Why do we show such indignation over alien terrorists and such tolerance...
Schwab has been able to get luminaries to go to Davos, for which they receive generous speaking fees plus expenses. Last year former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger used the Davos podium to warn against a Soviet arms buildup, and in 1979 French Premier Raymond Barre gloomily predicted that Western Europe's lack of energy and raw materials would condemn it to dangerous dependence on the Middle East and other areas...
Even Ronald Reagan, at ease with the implausibilities of fictive film, would have rejected the script as beyond belief. At the approach of high noon, the hero strides to the podium. Gently, the sun tries to break through an overcast sky. With a resounding "So help me God!" he pledges to uphold the Constitution, and then calls for an "era of national renewal." He leaves the platform, with the U.S. Marine Band playing Hail to the Chief, and minutes later a plane half a world away finally lifts off from a Tehran runway, thus ending an ordeal that has sapped...
...stories, both intertwined and competing, unfolded, building to a happy ending. The final act began at 11:42 a.m. in Washington as a Marine baritone, Michael Ryan, launched into the third verse of America the Beautiful. 'O beautiful for heroes proved/ In liberating strife," he sang from the podium on the Capitol's West Front, where in minutes Reagan would be sworn in as President. At that moment, the news began to spread of a wire-service bulletin, "Hostages free." A murmur emanated from those in the vast crowd who had brought their radios...
Reagan's audience, estimated at 150,000, stretched far down Capitol Hill, past the brooding statue of Ulysses S. Grant, past the edge of the great Reflecting Pool. Directly in front of the podium was a huge tiered platform for the instruments of Reagan's true audience: millions of television viewers. As the Marine Corps Band played stirring renditions of Yankee Doodle and The Battle Hymn of the Republic, official guests in solemn procession arrived to take their positions. The Senate strode in with Leader Howard Baker in front, carrying his omnipresent 35-mm camera. Then came Vice...