Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...years of running for elective office, resourceful Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, 78, should have perfected every possible defense against babies who try to reciprocate his professional affections. But last week in his home town of Bonham, Texas, Mister Sam, a childless bachelor of long standing, met a politician's minor Waterloo in eight-month-old Marty Grove, son of a Dallas reporter. Coming out of a clinch, Rayburn forgot to duck...
...only event held as scheduled yesterday evening was the HDC production of "The Caucasian Chalk Circle." Quincy House's Africa forum fell through when the plane carrying speaker Abdoulaye Sengare was grounded in Chicago. The night school did not hold classes...
...second speaker, Rober Taber, former CBS correspondent in Cuba and now executive secretary of the newly formed National Fair Play for Cuba Committee, declared that opposition to state department Cuban policy "constantly on the rise...
Taber also emphasized that the Committee has a "long way to go. In fact, I've met people just recently who think that Cuba belongs to the United States." The speaker hoped that President-elect Kennedy was "only kidding" when he offered during the campaign to support Cuban counter-revolutionaries...
...Another speaker, Richard W. Mechem '45, Principal of Newton High School, advised the students not to editorialize on the basic philosophy of their school in their newspaper writing but to criticize --" with no holds barred"--whenever the institution deviates from that philosophy...