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Platinum blonde Mrs. Luzette Oostdyke-Sparin of Los Angeles seemed to make the rostrum her second home. "Isn't it beautiful that Mr. Statler has put this initial 'S' on it for us," she cried. "It stands for Spirit-for soul!" Dr. Ruth E. Chew, in a lecture entitled "Shine, Shimmer, Scintillate," told how she put people on "a diet of joy." By way of an appetizer, she had the audience repeat after her twice: "I am filled with joy; joy, gladness and delight make everything all right." Her joy diet, said Dr. Chew, can heal anything...
...little speech saying how glad he was to be in the U.S. Already his text had been passed out to the press ("the honor you have done me, and through me to my country, by inviting me to say a few words . . ."). But Christian Pineau never got to the rostrum. The State Department had neglected to tell the secretary of the Senate that he was coming; there were only twelve Senators on the floor, and it was too near lunch time to round up a quorum. Apologetically Walter George hustled Pineau off to lunch with Senate leaders and several members...
...house of representatives one day last week stormed a bulky, rumpled man, his collar tabs curling up over the lapels of his loose-hanging suit, his paunch bulging over his low belt line, his Western-style straw hat in hand. Governor Earl Kemp Long strode straight to the rostrum. "Double-cross!" he bellowed, in his gravel baritone. "I had 69 votes!" The bill before the house was one of the governor's favorites, and it had just gone down to defeat. Even as Earl bellowed, his floor leaders took their cue; member after member rushed to the speaker...
Prime Minister Nehru hopped spryly onto the rostrum of India's Parliament last week and waved a 641-page, blue-backed volume at the sea of faces before him. "This is the mighty theme of a nation building and remaking itself," he cried. "We had something worthwhile in our first Five-Year Plan and we made good to some extent. This second Five-Year Plan is the real beginning. We have to start from scratch...
...delegates felt that the old man's foreign policy had not borne fruit, only one dared openly to question its inflexibility. When Berlin Deputy Ferdinand Friedensburg suggested in an almost painfully respectful little speech that perhaps Germany should have alternative policies on reunification, the Chancellor leaped to the rostrum with the agility of a man of 50. He shook a stubby finger at Friedensburg and roared: "What alternatives...