Word: rostrums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...befits a real estate tycoon, he had three private phones at his elbow-one to the office, one to the outside world and one to the rostrum, 75 ft. away. But all those hot lines could not break the ice at the giant auction in the grand ballroom of Manhattan's Astor Hotel. In need of some hard cash, William Zeckendorf, 58, put 25 New York City properties up for grabs, hoping to get more than $7,500,000. Only ten of them drew any bid at all, sold for a near-minimum $2,622,000 (which will...
...less nonviolent. The most popular is ushi aruki, or cow-walking. Realizing that they cannot block the overwhelming conservative majority, the Socialists do their best to slow business to a standstill. In balloting sessions, each Socialist member gets up slowly as his name is called, shuffles toward the rostrum with the shortest steps possible. Where it takes 230 conservatives only 15 minutes to vote, 120 Socialists consume as much as an hour and a half. Cow-walking is combined with sitdown strikes in Diet corridors, deliberate traffic jams, boycotts, and picketing to prevent the Speaker from taking his seat. Through...
Right at home in Goldwater country, Connecticut's Conservative Editor William F. Buckley, 37, mounted the rostrum at Arizona State University. Among the subjects viewed from his lofty pique were pacifism, "liberal mythology," and summitry. "There is nothing wrong with summit conferences," said he. "What's wrong is sending a liberal to summit conferences." Buckley's suggestion? An Old Guard union leader. "If we sent John L. Lewis, for example, he would come back with the Ukraine in his hip pocket." "All those parties," noted U.N. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson, 63, can be an awful drag...
...Last week Baldwin was in California, hopping from city to city to talk to college and high school students. Thrust from typewriter to rostrum by virtue of a widely acclaimed, blistering essay in The New Yorker (TIME, Jan. 4), now in book form under the title The Fire Next Time, Baldwin spared his audiences nothing. He spoke not for himself but for all Negroes to all whites. "I hoed a lot of cotton," he said. "I laid a lot of track. I dammed a lot of rivers. You wouldn't have had this country if it hadn't been...
...convey his greetings to the assembly, expressing prayerful hope that the meeting may further the cause of peace and brotherhood of mankind." Himself Is Here. As toastmaster, Editor in Chief Luce introduced the guests with him on the dais. When he finished, there was a bustle at the rostrum as news of a late arrival was whispered into his ear. Then came...