Word: speech
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...impression was left I was trying to avoid that debate, being too cautious." He was anything but cautious Friday afternoon, repeatedly assailing Hart by name in a press conference and then in a speech in the rotunda of the Maine capitol building in Augusta. Voice booming, face flushed, fists pounding the lectern, Mondale accused Hart of siding with Big Oil (by voting against the windfall-profits tax and proposing a $10 per bbl. fee on imported oil that would "add at least a full percentage point" to the inflation rate) and of pleasing "the hospital lobby" (by helping to kill...
Democratic Presidential candidate George S. McGovern called for a bipartisan effort to end hunger in America in a speech before a crowd of about 100 yesterday at the School of Public Health...
Although he was never interrupted by applause during his speech. McGovern did receive a standing ovation as he left the hall...
...question period after the hour-long speech, Seaga defended his treatment of the opposition party. "When opposition to my government arose, I had two choices. I could either have resigned or held an election. As my resignation would have caused great trauma to the people of Jamaica. I decided to hold elections." The opposition party boycotted the December 1983 elections, and Seaga's Labour Party took all 60 seats in the Parliament...
...International Affairs....or, tap for the weekend is a big, two-day conference on women's history at Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library that was Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities Robert M. Coles '50 who dropped, by the University of Massachusetts at Boston last month to deliver a speech at a celebration of the statefunded university's 20th anniversary. Coles urged colleagues and students in the mental health disciplines to get back in touch with the simple truths of human behavior and rely less on book theory. Harvard Treasurer George Putnam '49 is currently on vacation in India...