Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many observers were stunned yesterday when unofficial tallies for number one votes in the Cambridge City Council race showed only three Cambridge Convention '77 candidates in strong positions, and two sons of powerful political families almost assured of council seats.
Convention members say they have hopes that if elected, Holway and Kennedy will take the liberal side more often than not, but the candidates want to preserve their options and try to work with everyone. Whether or not any challenger can bridge the gap between the two factions is questionable...
City Councilor Saundra Graham said last week she is the Convention's strongest promoter of affirmative action. "Women are not promoted in city government," she said last week. She wants to develop a job-skill bank so Cambridge residents can compete with outsiders for city jobs, has fought police brutality...
Schism was accomplished at the church's General Convention last year, when approval was given to the pseudo ordination of women and the revision of the Book of Common Prayer. Call us dissidents if you like, but we are only attempting to preserve the Catholic faith forfeited by the church...
The standing ovation from his colleagues and from the overflowing galleries continued while Hubert Humphrey moved vigorously around the chamber, greeting friends, among them a number of onetime adversaries, with handshakes and bear hugs. There were warm reunions with Bob Byrd, who beat him out for the post of majority...