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...professors are Prometheus, shedding light from the lecture podium, confident, knowledgable, urbane. Other models are remote. Some, particularly businessmen, are scorned. Academic values are prized to the exclusion of all other values. Honors students receive the attentions of their tutors; non-honors men are pariahs...
...podium, with Lady Bird and daughters Luci and Lynda Bird standing beside him throughout, Lyndon "suggested" to the delegates that they select Humphrey as his running mate, then took a seat and waited restlessly, often in apparent boredom, while the convention approved his choice...
...Mandate to Begin. The President spoke for 35 minutes, reading alternately from his text and from the Speech View prompters fastened to the podium at eye level. He urged Americans to "rededicate ourselves to keeping burning the golden torch of promise which John Kennedy set aflame." He reiterated the Democratic themes of "peace, prosperity and preparedness," promised "compassion and love to the old, the sick and the hungry," asked for "a mandate to begin" the march toward "the Great Society." He struck at Barry Goldwater by declaring that the coming campaign would be a contest "between those who welcome...
...less forgettable moment came when NBC decided to ignore the podium during New York City Mayor Robert Wagner's speech seconding L.B.J. Instead, the network turned breathlessly to Sander Vanocur as he buttonholed David Dubinsky, boss of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. At last came Vanocur's question to Dubinsky: "Did you know that Mrs. Hubert Humphrey makes all her own clothes?" Over to Huntley-Brinkley...
...witnessed such an ovation. After the festival's opening concert last week, a capacity audience of 2,200 stamped, clapped and bravoed in a demonstration that verged on Beatlemania. One of the few in the hall who seemed unmoved by all the fuss was the man on the podium, hot-eyed, shock-haired Zubin Mehta, 28, the onetime boy wonder from Bombay who, in four years of conducting from Moscow to Montreal, has enjoyed one of the most spectacular ascents to fame in many a decade...