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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Washington National Chairman Butler, already worried over the Orval Faubus effect on northern Negro voters, quickly supported Gravel for his "integrity, candor and intelligence," snapped that the National Committee, which rules on its own membership, will keep Gravel in office until the 1960 convention. Louisiana's U.S. Senator...
For one week, India's parched capital of Delhi (pop. 1,800,000) manfully put on the air of a Chicago at convention time. So jammed were the city's 1,850 hotel rooms that one enterprising manager converted 50 singles into doubles by adding divans that one...
Hot-blooded and personally anarchic, Wolfe recoiled at the restrictions of New England morals. He imagined that the entire weight of false convention was pressing in upon him. The Boston social structure seemed meaningless, and its products void of emotion, and therefore they were repugnant and disgusting. In Of Time...
¶Goren, who once bid TIME'S flawed variant of the Gerber Convention while partnering Gerber himself, is pleased that so many readers caught TIME'S error.-ED.
This battle of the sexes was not won without a struggle. "Pregnant preachers would be unseemly in the pulpit," said some of the traditionalists when the subject came up at the church convention last year. "Less so than fat, smug male priests," countered the feminists. When the convention vetoed the...