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...balloting, done by written vote, and the counting took four hours. Then a party official announced the results: 355 votes for Indira Gandhi and 169 for her only rival, Morarji Desai. Indira walked quickly to the podium, spoke briefly. "As I stand before you," she said in Hindi, "my thoughts go back to the great leaders: Mahatma Gandhi, at whose feet I grew up, Panditji, my father, and Lal Bahadur Shastri. These leaders have shown the way, and I want to go along the same path...
...Alain Lombard, 25, from Paris, was easily the most dashing. He commanded the podium like an admiral on the bridge, embracing the orchestra with grand sweeping gestures of his long arms. His attack was marked by an easy, graceful masculinity, at times almost overpowering in its intensity. Conductor of the Lyon State Opera since 1963, he is the most experienced of the four winners. One of the judges, Composer Gian Carlo Menotti, announced that he had invited Lombard to guest-conduct at the Spoleto Festival this summer, a bonus prize to be awarded on a regular basis to future winners...
...Classical Guitarist Andres Segovia recently stopped a performance in Chicago, whipped out an enormous handkerchief, and honked and wheezed along with the audience. Jascha Heifetz prefers the withering glare or, if things get too bad, departure. The late Sir Thomas Beecham was even less subtle, once whirled on the podium and roared: "Shut up, you fools...
Stepping regally from his Citroen, Guinea's President Sékou Touré marched to the podium through a squad of women police in white breeches and gleaming boots. A din of drums and balaphon music filled the square, while gales of girls in green, red and yellow hand-printed dresses waited eagerly for the word. Sékou's speech was "to women in prisons all over the country," whose sentences, he announced, would herewith be reduced by a year - except for those held for criminal offenses...
...Disagree. Labor's monumental decorum was marred only momentarily, when two dozen student pickets infiltrated the meeting to protest against the war in Viet Nam, while Dean Rusk was defending U.S. policy before the convention. George Meany, like any true hero of the barricades, stumped over to the podium and growled: "Will the sergeant at arms remove those kookies from the gallery...