Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some were borne to center stage for the first time, including the woman on TIME'S cover, Peggy Kokernot, 25, a Houston physical education teacher and marathon runner. Along with other women athletes, she had been called on to make up for lost time when the symbolic, 2,612-mile...
The organizers were determined that the convention should not collapse in the kind of controversy that broke out in the first International Women's Year conference at Mexico City two years ago and in some of the state conventions that chose delegates for Houston. Strategy to ensure the passage of...
By running the convention so tightly, however, the organizers left themselves open to charges of rigging. Some of the 400 antiabortion, anti-ERA delegates complained, with a degree of justice, that they had not been given enough chance to challenge or debate the many resolutions that came speeding by. Debate...
Even some feminist sympathizers were uneasy about how firmly the majority ruled. "I learned all about parliamentary procedure," said Sharon Talbot, "but I never got to hear the pro-family side. It's only fair that they should get to speak too." Linda Downs, editor of Woman Time, a bimonthly...
While the Houston convention was passing its National Plan of Action, a counterrally across town attracted 11,000 women, men and children into the Astrohall, and 2,000 others had to wait outside. They had arrived from far and near aboard chartered planes and dusty buses. Cheer for cheer, epithet...