Word: conventioneer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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If you've ever been to a science-fiction convention you've seen them in a less egregious form: short, bad complexion, slightly overweight, greasy hair, glasses, copy of Stranger in a Strange Landdiscreetly folded over an otherwise prominent hard-on. At least they have something to talk about: the...
In preparation for his campaign, Brown has lately increased his overtures to his party's left wing, most of which op posed his support this year of a constitutional convention to write a budget-balancing amendment. Brown has been emphasizing his opposition to nuclear power, and now appears frequently...
Tuesday afternoon, religious leaders: Jimmy Allen, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention; Robert Bellah, sociology professor, University of California at Berkeley; William Cannon, United Methodist bishop of Georgia; Terence Cardinal Cooke of New York; Patrick Flores, Roman Catholic bishop of El Paso; Archbishop lakovos, head of the
But 1969 proved to be a temporary turning point. In that year a Peruvian government undertook to save the animals by creating a 16,000-acre preserve called Pampa Galeras in the windswept highlands in the southern part of the country. Peru also signed a pact with Bolivia that banned...
Benavides is leading an international public relations campaign to get members of the La Paz Convention to extend the treaty. Unless he succeeds, and that is a long shot, government hunters in the Pampa Galeras could start a truly open season on the hapless beasts. -