Word: rostrums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high dudgeon by now, Russia's Malik grabbed the microphones again, this time to deliver a bullying attack on "Zionist extremists." Glaring over the rostrum at Israeli Delegate Yosef Tekoah, Malik sarcastically asked why the Jews should be a "chosen people" who were "closer to God" than the rest of humanity. "This is religious racism!" Malik shouted. "Religious fascism!" Tekoah, trembling with rage, stepped to the rostrum. Jews, he said, indeed seemed to have been chosen-"chosen to suffer." In a telling swipe at his Bolshevik adversary, he noted that Zionists had been battling imperialism "long before the Russian...
...That? Saudi Arabia's Baroody butted in again, trying to raise a point of order. While he gestured, a fair-haired man in a business suit calmly walked to the rostrum, adjusted the mikes and began unfolding a prepared statement. Who was he? No one knew. Before he could speak, security officers hustled him off. The would-be delegate turned out to be Daniel R. McColgan, a Brooklyn public relations man. All he wanted to do, he told police, was say a few things about China...
...early evening's cool, the uninvited maneuvered for a position near the glass, while under bright lights inside, the horsy rich gossiped, complained about the location of their seats, shifted their jewels and studied their catalogues. From high on a rostrum center stage, a young man in a tuxedo surveyed the all-white crowd, then once again rapped his gavel and begged for silence. When it came at last, he reverentially intoned the pedigree of the skittish filly in the ring below, then turned the microphone over to the man beside him. "Well-1-1-1 . . ." began the second...
...Lawrence McCarty, an official of the American Conservative Party serving as moderator for the Teach-in, attempted to introduce the first speaker. After it had become plain that he was not being heard, Archibald Cox '34, Harvard's troubleshooter, appeared from the rear of the stage, walked to the rostrum, and begged the crowd to quiet down. Near tears as he spoke, he asked the disrupters to "answer what is said here with more teach-ins and more truth, but let the speakers be heard." The crowd chanted more loudly, and Cox retired to his observation post again...
...week to reconsider the election bill, tempers were already high. Opposition Deputies taunted the Thieu forces, claiming that the President was buying votes for as much as 700,000 piasters ($2,545). In an effort to force a roll-call vote, Ky Supporter Nguyen Dae Dan leaped to the rostrum, brandished a hand grenade and threatened to pull the pin. Dan was talked into giving up the weapon, and next day, despite his theatrics, the Assembly passed the bill...