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Time Inc. Chairman Andrew Heiskell, Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan and other Time Inc. officers served on the rostrum to help organize the debates. Associate Editor David Tinnin, who regularly follows the Energy beat, talked extensively with participants at the conference, then returned to New York City to write about the meeting. His story accompanies this week's report on the President's energy program in the Nation section's assessment of Carter's first three months in the White House...
...Life Idi Amin Dada, who at times appeared in full-dress uniform with row upon row of decorations covering his awesome chest. Throughout the conference he was ignored as much as possible, but Big Daddy got his revenge. Just as Syria's President Hafez Assad was taking the rostrum to speak, Amin temporarily stole the show by speeding off, amid motorcycle sirens, to give a rambling and often incoherent press conference at which he declared, in case anybody was wondering, that he was not on the CIA payroll...
...only brush with him was in 1954. She remembered standing among the leaders on the rostrum of the Gate of Heavenly Peace to review the parades, demonstrations, and fireworks that marked the state's fifth anniversary. Chou Enlai, always alert to proprieties, made a move to introduce Chiang Ch'ing to Khrushchev. Seeing what was about to happen, Chairman Mao stood up, walked over to Chiang Ch'ing (almost never did they appear publicly side by side), and brusquely escorted her away, leading her down one of the two alleys that ran along the sides...
...ascended the rostrum to the accompaniment of Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman-roughly, China's version of Hail to the Chief and a song that heretofore had been played only in Mao's honor. Significantly, the new helmsman was dressed in full military uniform, as were almost one-third of the other officials on the reviewing stand-a clear sign of the army's importance as the guarantor of the new leadership. Hua did not speak during the coronation-type ceremony, leaving the keynote task to Peking's mayor, Wu Teh, who assured...
...writing press flank the specially built 12-ft.-high podium. Each delegation chairman has a red "hotline" phone to talk with the podium, which is presided over by Convention Chairperson Lindy Boggs, a Louisiana Congresswoman. When the receiver is taken off the hook, a light at the rostrum signals and the caller can ask to be recognized...