Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nothing like it has been seen in the U.S. in at least 129 years-or ever. In driving rain, while a band belted out The Yellow Rose of Texas, a bronze torch made its final lap in front of Houston's Albert Thomas Convention Center late last week in...
Issues such as these have confronted the roughly 50 delegates to the Harvard convention that has begun the process of writing a charter for a college-wide student government. Whether the government these delegates from--if they form one--will gain sufficient credibility and effectively mobilize student opinion, as the...
The National Organization for Women (NOW) has urged other pro-ERA organizations not to hold conventions in the 15 states that have failed to ratify the amendment.- Some 40 national political and professional groups-including the National Education Association, the National Lawyers Guild and the Democratic National Committee-have agreed...
One problem with the tactic is that most conventions are planned-and booked-far in advance, and the organizations are often locked into contracts with convention centers. The 54,000-member American Home Economics Association, for example, willingly canceled its plans for a 1980 convention in Las Vegas-but will...
DIED. Guy Lombardo, 75, Canadian-born bandleader who for 48 years ushered in the New Year with "the sweetest music this side of heaven"; in Houston. When he was twelve, Lombardo recruited his brothers Carmen and Lebert for a small band that played for dances in London, Ont. After a...