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...nation awoke to find the official flag of the U.S.S.R. flying over the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., with a copy of "Down With Capitalism," a recent issue of the Lampoon, at the base of the flagpole. Representative Tomas Blanton (D.-Tex.) literally rushed to the rostrum of the House "to warn his colleagues and the country," "suspecting that the flag might mean the signal for social revolution," according to the Boston Post...
Psychological Effect. Though city rioting caused many Democrats with urban constituencies to bridle, Administration forces commanded by Speaker John McCormack brought them into line. Abandoning his rostrum to speak from the floor, McCormack rasped: "We are talking about human dignity!" When the votes were tallied six days after King's death, the bill passed...
Under a sign exhorting "Stand Up for America," Wallace mounted a rostrum at the Pittsburgh Hilton to address his first Northern audience since announcing for the presidency. While an S.R.O. crowd of 2,000 cheered and shouted "Amen!" and "Tell it like it is, George!", Alabama's former Governor sneered, winked and thundered through a 50-minute attack on everything from the Supreme Court to his favorite target, "pseudo-intellectuals." When it was over, he had in hand a thousand more signatures than the 10,551 needed to place his American Independent Party on Pennsylvania's presidential ballot...
...cavernous classroom No. 350 at Tokyo's Nihon University, 800 drowsy students, dressed mostly in the traditional black tunics and black trousers, stared dully at the far-off rostrum. Suddenly, the 8 a.m. mood was shattered by the magnified rumble of a professor clearing his throat into a powerful P.A. system-and a lecture on commercial law was under way. The Japanese call it masu puro kyōiku (mass-production education), the style of academic life in the world's most university-populated city. Within Tokyo are no fewer than 102 universities with nearly 500,000 students...
...advent of televised wrestling. The Tory high command, following the example of Party Leader Ted Heath, sat solemnly on the speaker's platform, heavy-lidded, hard-shelled and heartburned. Little about the party leaders suggested that they were capable of standing up to the slogan emblazoned on the rostrum: PUT BRITAIN BACK ON HER FEET. Speaker after speaker proclaimed the merits or decried the perils of 14 tired resolutions (including calls for higher tariff barriers, negotiations with Rhodesia and "the protection of our interests overseas"), all of which were duly adopted by 4,500 Tory delegates...