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...South Dakota Senator is personally mild, all right, tends to speak in complete sentences and simple words, leaves the rostrum before him mostly unpounded, and believes-as he said here last week-that "the task of political leadership is to appeal to what is best in each one of us instead of what is mean and divisive." Yet, anyone who heard him the night before at a raucous Democratic party rally in the municipal auditorium at Albuquerque might be forced to revise his opinion about George McGovern's stump style-and the political atmosphere...
...salary because he did "heavier" work. While the woman was spraying the doors, the man was spraying the chassis, supposedly a harder job. A few German women are beginning to challenge the country's traditional male autocracy. When Bundestag Vice President Richard Jaeger recently refused access to the rostrum to any female Deputy in slacks, Socialist Deputy Lenelotte von Bothmer arrived in a pants suit. Herr Doktor Jaeger diplomatically absented himself to avoid a confrontation...
...banal platitudes that only the Needham P. T. A. could find palatable. Lines like "Some of these kids just want to turn the world upside down, others just want to retreat from it." He looks so sincere and self-righteous, as if he were God himself speaking from the rostrum of the high school auditorium. Later, when he finds out his son is dealing, he pats him on the cheek, and then climbs down the stairs to call the police. The son gets off. Illegal search and seizure. That is supposed to be a tragedy. It may be the only...
...final session, an Israeli delegate vented his rage by storming to the rostrum and ripping Najia's report to shreds. The assembly's final report to the U.N. did, however, make a grudging attempt at impartiality: it balanced the demand for U.S. withdrawal from Indochina with a suggestion that the Soviets should lay off Czechoslovakia...
...started conventionally enough with an address by Nancy Hanks, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Then the protesters arrived. Longhaired, mustachioed and some 30 strong, they stormed the speaker's rostrum at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, bearing banners and shouting insults at the U.S. museum establishment. They called themselves the New York Artists Strike Against Racism, Sexism, Repression and War. Two of their members, who were scheduled to address the delegates later that morning, demanded to be heard right then and there. After 20 minutes of shouting, the meeting was adjourned and nobody was heard. That evening...