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...Complained Brooklyn Democrat Bertram Podell: "He had the votes right in his pocket-the fellow down in city hall. It's a disgrace." Shouted another: "What you Republicans are doing is evil! It's wrong! It's immoral!" When Travia ascended to the speaker's rostrum, many anti-Wagner Democrats turned their backs on him; his main rival, Brooklyn's Stanley Steingut, stalked out without pausing to offer congratulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Up Bob, Down Bobby | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

...Agree." With equal determination and solemnity, his fists clenched, President Johnson leaned across a rostrum in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel and addressed some 400 civil rights and Negro leaders at a Community Action Assembly called by the National Urban League. "One of the Presidents I admire most signed the Emancipation Proclamation 100 years ago," he said. "But emancipation was a proclamation and was not a fact. It shall be my purpose, and it is my duty, to make it a fact." With that, his audience rose and flooded the hall with a torrent of applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Two Perspectives | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

...Belgrade were surprised to be admitted to all sessions of the Congress, which had never happened before. They felt, perhaps ungratefully, that the occasion left some thing to be desired -there was simply nothing to compare to the famed "Sex Congress" of 1952, when one delegate took the rostrum to accuse another of having stolen his wife's affections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yugoslavia: Staying in Power Without Turning Grey | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

...Thousands of students responded by staging a protest that trapped a police car summoned to arrest a defiant recruiter. While police and their prisoner huddled for 32 hours inside the patrol car, students and off-campus agitators battered it, rocked it, used the roof as a speaker's rostrum. Stunned, the university vacillated over its next move, then suspended eight ringleaders of the demonstration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: To Prison with Love | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

...rostrum, Johnson rhapsodized about U.S. prosperity, world peace and "the great society." Said he in Raleigh: "There are so many more things that unite us than divide us. There are so many more people in the world that love instead of hate-and we ought to be a nation of lovers, not of haters." In the same speech, Lyndon declared: "I hear those who are frantic and who sometimes are hysterical. But every day, as I go abroad in this land, I see, by the hundreds of thousands, men, women and children who love freedom and know they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Joy of Being Beloved | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

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