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...ground pattern" of roads and walks, based on a system of "segregated traffic" in which pedestrians and shoppers will go about their business on a "podium" 20 ft. above all buses and cars...
...Averell Harriman, was too late to get more than two dozen votes (out of 1,372) off the Stevenson bandwagon. For his part, Rayburn was prepared to work in the open long before convention time. But his critical role will come if, as expected, he mounts the podium at Los Angeles in July 1960 to become, for the fourth time running, permanent convention chairman. Master of floor strategy and impervious to shouts of delegates he does not care to recognize, Sam Rayburn will be in a position to gavel down surprise opposition moves, help steer the convention toward his candidate...
...Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, Northwestern, and the University of Chicago. Sponsored by NSA groups on each campus, they spoke in French to sparse audiences comprised mainly of foreign students, Africans, and French majors anxious to show their facility by painfully framing their questions in ungrammatical French. I shared the podium with them as translator...
...theory that one out of every ten adult male Americans is a conductor at heart, if not in mind and basic education, Victor has issued 35,000 of the albums, happily expects to get demands for more. In Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, Victor is building a podium before a wall-sized photograph of the Boston Symphony, plans to invite passers-by in to conduct behind closed doors. Actually, home conducting may be a healthy thing, according to Manhattan Psychoanalyst Dr. Edmund Bergler: it provides the amateur with sublimating relief from the gnawing "infantile megalomania" that afflicts every...
...world's outstanding orchestra conductors, who shaped the post-World War II reconstruction of Amsterdam's famed 71-year-old Concertgebouw, transpolar commuter who since 1957 had directed both the Concertgebouw and the Los Angeles Philharmonic; of a heart attack; while rehearsing on the podium in Amsterdam...