Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democratic Presidential candidate spoke at New England Life Hall in Boston, after just having returned from a three-week fact-finding mission to India, Pakistan and Indochina...
After the press conference, McGovern spoke to a crowd of about 500 as part of the Bicentennial Forum Program. Following an introduction by Boston Mayor Kevin White as "a man who has a lot of friends in Massachusetts," McGovern's 35-minute speech centered on the continuing need to ask questions as part of the democratic process...
...large African in the front row did not even rise to refute her, but spoke stormily from his seat. Amid a torrent of words that drew "right-ons" from others and smiles and cheers from the Le Monde-bestrewed section where members of the African Youth Movement were sitting, he blustered over the argument that because the MPLA was at one point opposed by the People's Republic of China, it is illegitimate. He concluded with a fiery call for support of the people, including the "Palestinian people, the Angolan people...
Edward T. Wilcox, now director of General Education and a former dean of the grad school, says, "My interpretation of his feelings then were that he felt that there was a lot of amateurism in what they were doing. He was quick to speak and spoke at the beginning...
...shortfall has turned out to be manageable. The 1975 forecasts, however, sounded alarmingly convincing. Last July, President Ford himself warned that plant shutdowns caused by gas shortages "will mean substantially less jobs" during the winter of 1975-76 and "could interfere with economic recovery," while a gas-company official spoke of "the industry's Pearl Harbor." From there the script got more familiar: as the heating season approached, the warnings were toned down until, in the closing days of the year, Federal Energy Administrator Frank Zarb predicted that the shortage once more would cause only inconvenience, not disaster...