Word: speaking
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...Democrats who are plagued with faction fights and feuds. Last fortnight State Senator Gaylord Nelson, Democratic candidate for Governor against hard-to-beat G.O.P. incumbent Governor Vernon Thomson, launched a crunching head-on attack against Ticket-Mate Bill Proxmire. Reason: Proxmire invited Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson to speak at Milwaukee's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner on May 17, and even though Johnson could not come, Nelson took after him as the spokesman for Texas oil interests inimical to Wisconsin liberalism. Beyond that, Proxmire is losing the devotion of many fundamentally conservative Wisconsin independents for his high-spending recommendations...
...last the Paris government began to speak openly of "insurrection against the state." But even in this desperate hour, Pflimlin was careful to emphasize that he applied the word "rebel" only to the Corsicans and not to their infinitely more powerful sponsors in Algiers. The clear implication: Pflimlin was convinced that, no matter how great the provocation, he could not try to bring Algiers to heel by force. And since there was no apparent hope of bringing Algiers to heel any other way, the likelihood was that in the end the Fourth Republic would be obliged to capitulate...
Dean Bundy will speak at the Seniors' Class Day ceremonies on June 11, the 1958 Permanent Class Committee announced yesterday. The morning's program, presided over by Merom Brachman, First Marshal of the Class, will also include a serious speech to be delivered by Adam Clymer, Class Orator. The Ivy Oration, traditionally a humorous piece, will be given by Harold E. Fitzgibbons...
Undergraduate poetry is a touchy subject, and Robert Johnston's two poems are therefore better left to speak for themselves. Arthur Freeman's work is easier to discuss, for it is much better. His humorous poems are truly funny rather than merely ingenious, the kind of humor at which we laugh without thinking first. His more serious offering, "Storm in Equinox," is one of the best things to come out of South Street of late. Gabrielle Ladd, a Wellesley senior, is the third poet, although her relationship to the Advocate is elusive...
According to Martin G. Silverman '60, president of the Council, Menshikov expressed himself as being "anxious to speak" to the students and faculty. He will appear as part of a program sponsored by the Council celebrating United Nations Day, October...