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...Grand Rapids, Nixon's appearance was a genuine triumph. So packed were the crowds in downtown Campau Square that weary newsmen could not get through to the rostrum. There, as in Muskegon, anti-Nixon demonstrators pelted the visitors with eggs and tomatoes; one egg hit Nixon in the leg, another struck a Secret Service agent.* ("I have been heckled by experts," Nixon cried, "so don't try anything on me or we'll take care...
Bayonet-like Blade. The first speaker was bull-necked Asanuma, who lumbered to the rostrum a few moments after 3 p.m., and in a deep, rasping voice began denouncing Japan's much-debated security pact with the U.S. Hecklers of a Nazi-style group called the Great Japan Patriots' Party showered the stage with leaflets and shouted "Shut up, Communist" and "Banzai the U.S.A." Asanuma ignored them. As he went on speaking, a youth leaped onto the stage. He was wearing boots, a student's high-collared black uniform and a thick jacket. He clutched a slightly...
Padding up to the rostrum, Khrushchev began with a deceptively calm appeal to the neutralists. Said he: "There cannot be any disarmament without China. There cannot be any normal work of the United Nations without China." Then, as the spirit moved him, he embarked on wholesale denunciation of the West and all its works. While the usually impassive Dag Hammarskjold smiled down from his seat a few feet above the rostrum, Khrushchev flailed the air with a clenched fist and shouted that Hammarskjold was "a creature of the imperialists." A few moments later, in a lightning transition, he labeled Spain...
Renewed Call. As Ike appeared on the rostrum, all but the Communist-bloc leaders broke into respectful applause. Khrushchev turned on his most impassive face, fiddled with his earpiece, exchanged comments with Gromyko, gazed at his gold-banded watch, drummed his fingers now and then on his desk. Castro leaned for ward intently...
Kennedy on the speaker's rostrum is tense and brief. Although his speechwriters work hard at their craft, Kennedy makes so many cuts and interpolations that advance copies of his text are almost useless. Says Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: "The difference between Stevenson and Kennedy is that Adlai puts subordinate clauses in all the speeches you write and Jack takes them out." Frequently, sensing the mood of his audience. Kennedy discards his prepared text altogether and speaks fluently off the cuff (both Nixon and Kennedy are at their best in ad-lib situations ). His speeches are breathlessly brief: never more...