Word: attend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...known that he favors Bobby. So have a clutch of Northern and Midwestern Governors and state and county party chairmen. From his sickbed in Boston, Ted Kennedy declared himself in on the boomlet. NBC Cor respondent Nan Dickerson reported that Jackie Kennedy would return from cruising Yugoslav waters to attend the convention and "help Bobby." To top it off, convention planners were scheduling a massive tribute to John F. Kennedy. Such a spectacle was bound to incite an instant-bandwagon for Bobby, right there in the convention hall...
...included two of the G.O.P.'s most highly regarded tacticians, former National Chairman Leonard Hall and Ohio's State Chairman Ray Bliss. He also phoned his convention foe, Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, arranged a Republican "summit meeting" next week in Hershey, Pa., and invited key Republicans to attend...
...coup took place, he began to grow his black goatee. Apparently he did not like what he saw ahead, and a beard was his enigmatic symbol of future plans. After three months of watching the bickering and lethargy of the Big Minh junta, Khanh arrived in the capital to attend an officers' meeting, quietly rallied some fellow officers, including the commander of troops surrounding Saigon, and on the night of Jan. 30 pulled off his own coup, a silent one that caught his rivals in their pajamas. While persuading Big Minh to stay on as titular chief of state...
...What One May. For months he had been planning to call a conference of Communist parties in order to thresh out the ideological split in the international Communist movement. But be fore he could even send off his invitations, Peking further complicated the whole affair by refusing to attend and promising to keep off the list of invited guests its allies in the ever-growing Sino-Soviet squabble...
Last week there was strong suspicion that the snake had turned against the Congo's new Premier, Moise Tshombe. To prove himself a true-black African leader and dispel accusations of colonialist stoogery, Katanga's onetime secessionist leader planned to attend this week's meeting of the Organization of African Unity in Cairo. Tshombe knew he had many enemies in the 34 African states comprising the O.A.U., but felt he could win sympathy from the group's conservative members and hold his own with the rest through the sheer force of his considerable personal charm...