Word: rostrums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gleaming white uwe, a kind of nightshirt decorated with lace, Nigeria's delegate made quite a sight on the rostrum of the U.N. General Assembly. And his words made quite a stir among the assembled delegates. "I am losing confidence in the great powers," cried chubby Jaja Wachuku, lambasting both East and West for failing to end their quarrels. "They are climbing from the pedestal of greatness to the pedestal of insanity. We expect leadership from them; they give us destruction. We expect wisdom from them; they give us lack of knowledge. We expect objectivity from them; they present...
University of Chicago Law School Graduate Abraham Ribicoff (cum laude, 1933) glanced through the program of the American Council of Education's annual meeting just before taking the rostrum for his address as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. The purpose of the Washington session, said the brochure, was to stimulate cooperation in education-and Ribicoff laughed sourly. Tossing aside his canned speech, he began scolding the presidents and deans of some 1,000 colleges. "I don't think you really care about education or are going to do anything about it. I don't know that...
Slowly, with dignity, dapper little Mongi Slim of Tunisia walked up the seven steps to the green marble rostrum and took his seat as president of the United Nations' 16th General Assembly. Before him were the diplomats who had elected him, a motley crowd of delegates from every corner of the world. "It is hard for me to express the great grief I experience," said President Slim, speaking in French. "The Secretary-General of the United Nations fell a victim to his duty. He died, one might say, on the battlefield of peace...
...This decision shocks me just as it shocked all world opinion," he said. "Whatever the motives of the Soviet government [it has] a clear bearing on the deterioration of the dangerous international situation." But his moment of conscience quickly passed; he spent the rest of his time on the rostrum denouncing the West and Western colonialism...
Watching warily, U.S. officials hoped that Pak might finally stop the witch hunts, get down to grappling with South Korea's basic problems; scarcely anything had been done to get the stagnant economy going. At week's end, Pak took to a public rostrum to declare that "the revolution has entered the second stage . . . Its objectives are winning' the public mind, and reconstruction of the economy." Everyone would be happy if he followed up his words with a little action...