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...Dictator Proposes. A party official read off the routine resignation of the old government. Then old (77) President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Kliment Voroshilov-just re-elected to another term in his largely honorific post -strode briskly to the rostrum and took his stand behind the massed mikes. Deputies leaned forward, earphones clamped on their heads. In the expectant silence, the whirring of movie cameras could be heard...
Despite the somewhat ignominious departure maneuver, which promises to become habitual, Nasser lost no time in seeking out a rostrum in Cairo to sound the new glories of the U.A.R. and its leader. In Cairo's Republic Square he thundered: "Always the Arab peoples were able to conquer invaders whenever they joined and stood together in one army-as in Saladin...
...making himself learn to crawl, in his making something heroic of what is humiliating, there is no trace of tear-jerking vaudevillism or performing virtuosity; there is always a sense of characterization and of character. It is a notable performance, culminating in the advance on crutches to the Convention rostrum-the re-entry into public life-with which Sunrise at Campobello ends...
...unsuccessful playwright (only one production reached Broadway). "I had long felt there was a play in F.D.R.'s illness," he says. After long talks with the family and meticulous research, Playwright Schary first whipped off the last scene, in which Roosevelt doggedly humps himself to the rostrum on crutches to make the nomination speech, then tuned the rest of the play to that climax...
...pepper twins was swift and violent. The U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther called Goldwater "this country's . . . number one peddler of class hatred ... a reactionary ... a stooge for big business . . . mentally unbalanced and needs a psychiatrist." Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams hustled to the rostrum to defend Reuther. (Mused a pleased Michigan Republican: "The people are getting the idea that every time Reuther takes an Alka-Seltzer, Soapy burps...