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...stand, held arms high in the air to acknowledge cheers. When the demonstration subsided, he cut through formality to wish the Congress a happy new year on behalf of himself and Mrs. Eisenhower. In the gallery, Mamie took a bow. Still smiling and casual, the President turned to the rostrum behind him for timely birthday greetings to Vice President Nixon (45) and House Speaker Sam Rayburn (76). Then, the smiles giving way to solemnity, he turned to the business at hand: his sixth State of the Union message. When he concluded, the nation and the world had heard a speech...
...this juncture, Khrushchev went to the rostrum and ratified what his foreign minister had said ("I fully agree"). Conceding that the NATO communique statement that the West will never attack Russia unless attacked itself "is not badly put," he added a suggestion of his own: a summit meeting between the U.S. and Russia alone...
...Sputniks. Standing at the rostrum, the bull-necked peasant who now presides over this vast empire savored his time of triumph to the full. For four long hours Nikita Khrushchev boasted of the past and future achievements of the U.S.S.R. In the next five to seven years, he declared, Soviet industry would "fully satisfy . . . footwear and fabric requirements." In ten or twelve years there would be an end to Russia's acute housing shortage. Best of all, "the Soviet Union in the next 15 years can not only catch up with the U.S. in the production of basic items...
...closed-circuit TV, have their bids transmitted by loudspeaker. Forewarned of the expected crush, Millionaire Collectors Nelson Rockefeller and Winthrop Aldrich arrived 1½ hours early to get seats. Metropolitan Museum Director James J. Rorimer, arriving late, had to sit on the floor in front of the auctioneers' rostrum; Mrs. Stavros Niarchos found herself tucked away out of sight in the wings of the stage; Greek Ship Owner Alex Goulandris spent the evening standing in the side aisle...
...trying to bring on a recession, the words from Washington sometimes sounded that way. Stepping to the rostrum at the same meeting, William McChesney Martin Jr., the independent-minded boss of the independent-minded Federal Reserve, made clear that he thinks a business decline must inevitably follow an inflationary surge of the sort that has hit the U.S. in the past two years. And he gave no hint that the Fed was getting ready to change its tight-money policy in order to stop the dip. Said Martin: "If you think that any time a decline reaches a certain point...