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...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...
When Yugoslavia's President Tito entered Sarajevo's magnificent new cultural and sports center last week, the 2,300 delegates to an economic conference cheered wildly and gave him a standing ovation. Then, as he strode to the rostrum beneath portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin and himself, the throng broke into the war-time song of the Yugoslav partisans, "Comrade Tito, we give you our word, we shall follow...
Main Event. Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny got the proceedings going by welcoming the 4,949 delegates and 101 foreign deputations to the handsome Palace of Congresses within the Kremlin's high walls. Then came the main event: for more than six hours, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev held the rostrum, and was interrupted by dutiful applause no fewer than 169 times. (Podgorny earned a round of "prolonged applause," too, when he declared a lunch break...