Word: 32nd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friend approaches Harrow Dragging a two-wheeled shopping cart and prodding, "Look, there are more people down at 32nd. Here you get a hundred. That's peanuts. Down there you get a thousand in no time...
TIME staff members who have covered earlier political conventions insist that, for journalists, there is no such thing as a dull one. Last week's 32nd Republican National Convention was no exception. The matter of a vice presidential nominee seemed the only speculative bit of business on the Nation section's advance story list. Yet for the top editors of TIME and Time Inc., for the 17 Nation editors, writers and reporter-researchers at the convention, and for the magazine's 13 correspondents and ten photographers present, the event became a pageant of sleepless nights and hectic...
From Ronald Reagan on down, Republicans last week expressed surprise, delight and, finally, gratitude for the welcome they received at their 32nd convention. At the outset of his acceptance speech, Reagan thanked the city for its "warm hospitality," and the delegates seconded that emotion with cheers and applause. During breakfast the next morning, Reagan again praised Detroit Mayor Coleman Young for a job well done. Agreed G.O.P. Chairman Bill Brock: "I'm getting overwhelming compliments about Detroit. This city has busted its rear...
Infused with the spirit of the 32nd Republican convention, the woman spotted a passenger in the smoking section who had lit a cigarette before the "No Smoking" sign had been turned off. Perhaps inspired by vice presidential nominee George Bush's reference to "a great mission," or perhaps inspired by presidential nominee Ronald Reagan's call for a "renewal of the American compact," the woman swiftly and officiously told a flight attendant of the smoker's trespass against his neighbors...
...with legendary cigarette-holder, Actor Jason Robards is Franklin D. Roosevelt in an NBC-TV teleplay, F.D.R: The Last Year. The three-hour show, to be aired this spring, is likely to be memorable for two reasons. One is Robards' portrayal of the four-term 32nd President in his twilight, down to a remarkable re-enactment of Roosevelt's heart attack and death at Warm Springs, Ga., in 1945 during a portrait sitting. The other is that the show tackles an aspect of F.D.R.'s life not generally known until recently. Kim Hunter shares the billing with...