Word: speaker
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Jesse Unruh, Speaker of the California House of Delegates, will be the decision-maker for the first show. "Smog Versus the Auto," to be aired October 5. The live, hour-long show concerns a bill in the California legislature which would ban the sale of internal combustion machines in the state after...
...uncommitted upon whom the election may hang was hurriedly schooling himself in Republican senatorial politics and protocol. He is Ralph Smith, 53, a self-styled flexible conservative who was speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives until last week, when Governor Richard Ogilvie appointed him to fill the late Everett Dirksen's Senate post until next year's election...
...Jerry Rubin, leaders of the prankishly absurd Yippies, and Davis, the son of a White House economic adviser during the Truman Administration and an organizer for the National Mobilization Committee. Black Panther Bobby Scale came to the Chicago convention almost by chance. He was filling in as a speaker for Eldridge Cleaver, whose parole board refused to let him leave California. The other defendants are John Froines, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Oregon, and Lee Weiner, a Northwestern University graduate student...
...HAVE to remind you, ladies and gentlemen, that we get only one guess at this, that we cannot go back to the drawing board if we make a mistake." The speaker, at a White House briefing last week, was a top-level Administration aide. The subject was "Vietnamization," the effort to place ever-increasing responsibility for fighting the war in the hands of the Vietnamese...
Bill Hunt was probably the best speaker in the movement. At Monday night dinners in the Arlington St. Church, he had his own circle around him. That was the one solid thing about the Resistance. It was a community. Every Monday night, the FBI agents with felt hats and overcoats would cross the street from the Common and stand in front of the church. They'd stand by the entrance to the meeting room downstairs and aim umbrellas at you and take your picture, click. The women in the Unitarian church made dinner and about a hundred people ate together...