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...GEORGE ROMNEY was a wow on the convention rostrum but is a most unhappy soul in the Goldwater-dominated Republican Party; he plans to disassociate himself from Goldwater in his race for re-election as Governor of Michigan this year, and he could have a hard time winning. But if he does win while Barry loses, watch Romney...
...rostrum, Eisenhower seemed astonished at the reaction to his statement. When he could be heard, he added, "because, my friends, I assure you that these are people who couldn't care less about the good of our party." The crowd roared anew. Ike later explained that he had penciled the remark into his speech almost as an afterthought to express his "resentment" at journalists who "write think pieces and ascribe motives to others when they don't know what they are talking about." Ike was irritated weeks ago by a New York Herald Tribune column by Roscoe Drummond...
...Cinemactor Tony Randall, who can well afford it, has dodged the charge by listing his number under a phony name, Irvine W. Tishman. As in many another company, A.T.&T.'s officers also are getting more and more harassment at annual meetings. Kappel has special controls behind the rostrum at which he stands to cut off any speaker who becomes too windy or unruly. But he delivered his most effective cut with out benefit of switch at the April 15 annual meeting, where a professional meeting-goer asked a seemingly endless round of questions, including one seeking to know...
...throngs at the Democratic National Convention have suddenly thrown themselves into paroxysms of cheers, shrieks and rebel yells. Snaking through the mob come dozens of beach-tanned nubile wenches, smiling, waving placards. The band puffs its zillionth chorus of Happy Days Are Here Again. And then to the spotlighted rostrum moves Lyndon Baines Johnson, who has just been nominated by acclamation as the party's candidate to succeed himself. Humbly, he motions for silence...
...flown up earlier, told his father the next morning. Said Boles afterward, "He took it with characteristic courage." The night of the assassination, Caroline and John Jr. were told that their father was dead. A Cedar Felled. In the U.S. Senate, Chaplain Frederick Brown Harris mounted the rostrum and placed a single sheet of scrawled notes before him. "We gaze at a vacant place against the sky," he said, "as the President of the Republic goes down like a giant cedar." Then he recalled the words that Ohio Representative James A. Garfield spoke on the morning that Abraham Lincoln died...