Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Controversy over the Canal When he took office, Carter hoped to establish an activist foreign policy, but now virtually all of his diplomatic initiatives are in trouble, either at home or abroad. The proposed Panama Canal treaty, the Administration's only major breakthrough with a foreign government to date...
Clearly, however, Torrijos' friendly mood would change instantly if the treaty were rejected-or substantially delayed-by Congress. Linowitz, stopping off in Denver after visiting Ford to attend an American Legion Convention, claimed to have won a convert or two among the anti-treaty legionnaires. This week he stalks...
For the 34 air controllers sent to Oshkosh from other Midwestern airports to keep the participants out of one another's struts, the convention was not only the "world's largest aviation event" but also the world's biggest traffic jam. Chicago's O'Hare...
Now, ten years later, the children's revolution of the '60s comes straggling back, startling to recognize in the summer of 1977. As if they had been flash-frozen in 1970, demonstrators at Kent State have been trying to prevent construction of a gym near the spot where...
Throughout the six-day convention, competition for ten coveted rosettes was, ipso facto, difficult indeed. Contenders in the Pentathlon had to work against the clock in proving to a computer their mastery of mythology, grammar and history. Nearby classrooms resounded to the ring of Ovid and Livy as the oratorical...