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...June Week at West Point. Pretty girls were whisked down to Flirtation Walk, proud families and friends conducted through garden parties, receptions and trophy-filled museums. Then one morning last week, 475 white-belted, swallow-tailed graduates filed gravely to the rostrum, saluted Academy Superintendent Major General Frederick A. Irving, received their diplomas (B.S.) and commissions as 2nd lieutenants in the Regular Army...
...wasted effort. Before a vote was taken, Speaker Sam Rayburn, Texas' bald epicenter of respectability, stepped gravely down from his rostrum for one of his rare appeals to the House. Rayburn said nothing flashy, but his prestige wrapped dignity around his homilies. He reminded his colleagues that they lived in dangerous times, recalled the effectiveness of the Marshall Plan and warned them that the hungry fall easy prey to Communism. "We need friends in this world today as we never needed them before," he said. "I am for ... this bill because I think it will help us from...
When he had finished, the Premier folded his notes, stepped from the rostrum, keeled over in a faint. Parliament knew just what to do-Mossadeq is always expected to faint when he gets excited, which is often. Two physician-deputies picked him off the red-carpeted floor, carried him out and revived...
...meeting was held in a small room with slightly chipped green walls, a rostrum at one end, and twenty rows of chairs. Sitting around when I came in were a couple of old men, two old women, and a six-year-old girl who mugged everyone present. From out of the corner an impeccably dressed individual with horn-rimmed glasses and a bush of curly hair appeared to greet...
...high-ceilinged amphitheater on London's Mincing Lane last week, veteran Auctioneer A. B. Yuille stepped up to the rostrum and pounded his gavel. He was offering for sale 18 chests of tea from Ceylon. From among the 400 brokers came cries of "Far! Far! Far!" as the bids rose a farthing at a time. Finally, at five shillings one farthing a Ib. (about 70?), the first lot went to George White & Co. In 3½ hours Auctioneer Yuille sold 11,524 chests containing 1,250,000 Ibs. of tea. For the first time since 1939, London...