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Triumph of the Will. Last weekend a friend of mine sitting in on this at the midnight show, sometime between the time when Rudolph Hess speaks and when der Fuehrer ascends the rostrum. Two young men in platforms lounging in front of him. One turns to the other "I don't mind the Nazi killing millions of people, but boring me for hours..." At the Orson Welles...
...very fact that the Congress could take place at all indicated that Peking's fractured leadership had come a long way toward resolving its differences. Indeed, visually, the Congress was a showpiece of elusive party unity. Lined up on the rostrum before a giant picture of Chairman Mao were representatives of just about every one of Peking's factions-from the brash young radical Wang Hung-wen to relative conservatives like Vice Premier Li Hsiennien. But the actual results of the Congress, especially its choice of men for high positions, constituted a striking victory for the party...
...concluded an extraordinary 80-minute speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Arafat, dressed in a fawn windbreaker and brown trousers and wearing both his familiar black-and-white checkered kaffiyeh and a pistol holster, which aides insisted was empty, finished his perorations, walked away from the mottled-marble rostrum and clasped his hands over his head in a boxer's victory stance. Led by delegates from Arab nations, the crowded Assembly Hall-the seats were predictably empty at the table reserved for Israel's delegation-burst into a roar of applause. U.S. Ambassador John Scali and most...
...shrink will not stand up. Here he is, at a tenants' meeting of Co-Op Village, which he has agreed to address on the psychology of rape. He just sits on the rostrum, arms folded, waiting for his check. Only when one of the tenants breathlessly delivers his fee does he start in-and what a start. He leaps up, shoots a blank pistol out into the audience, frightens the women, describes instead the physiology of rape in such heated detail that tremblings because of the shots are replaced with giggles. He asks for a volunteer from the audience...
...question is, who will belong to that collective leadership? As China's leaders mount the rostrum in Peking for the silver anniversary of their rule, Sinologists will be trying to determine which individuals or groups among them will be able to engineer a smooth succession to the post...