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...taken the rostrum at 8:05 p.m. and pleaded with the crowd for ten minutes "on behalf of the President and Fellows...
...host, Lee mounted the rostrum at 8:15 and started the long round of dignitary introductions. Protocol demanded that all of the 102 plenipotentiaries be introduced. The loudspeakers were almost wholly ineffective, and by the time Daley -presented as "the greatest mayor of the greatest city in the world"-stepped up to speak, nearly half the crowd had departed. Daley confined his remarks to a few innocuous platitudes about his roots in labor and job security, then exited to a standing ovation. The biggest indoor feast in history was over...
...remote; in the past month, some 100 persons have died as a result of electoral quarrels. Nevertheless, Indira does not shrink from the huge, open-air rallies that are the mainstay of an Indian campaign. In Hyderabad last week, a hail of shoes and stones was aimed at the rostrum as she spoke. None of the missiles struck her, and Indira, unshaken, inquired: "Has someone opened a new sandal shop in Hyderabad? If so, he must be making a fortune...
Walzer, clearly prepared for the out-burst, which had been promised half-way through the proceedings, said from the rostrum, "People like me have given a lot of lectures about self-destructive tendencies on the left-but one picture is worth a thousand words. Is this the kind of peace movement you want...
...46th Speaker of the House, the nation's third highest office. Neither was the least bit surprised when the vote was announced as 250 for Albert, 176 for Ford. Graciously, the defeated Ford escorted Albert, whose elfin face crinkled into a massive grin, through the cheering chamber. At the rostrum, Ford observed that "we are the representatives not of political parties but of the people." He praised Albert warmly and noted with mock solemnity that "until this moment, there has never been a Speaker from Bug Tussle, Oklahoma." Amid more applause, the diminutive Albert (5 ft. 4½ in.) took...