Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter exhibited a tremendous amount of courage in making his policy statement on amnesty and pardon at an American Legion convention, in view of the paranoid patriotism that is always present.
For political candidates it should come as something of quick, quick, quick relief to learn that their high-priced campaign ads on TV really pay off. Or so the American Psychological Association convention was told last week. Charles Atkin, a Michigan State University professor who has studied elections in Colorado...
GRAIN EMBARGOES. Ford ordered moratoriums on grain sales to the Soviet Union in 1974 and in 1975. In his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, he pledged, "There will be no embargoes." Yet, as Running Mate Robert Dole has conceded, embargoes on sales of food abroad might have to...
At the Democratic National Convention, Fritz Mondale rashly promised to put in more hours politicking each day than even his indefatigable running mate, Jimmy Carter. Last week, after rising before the sun, Mondale formally began his part of the Democratic campaign at Washington's National Airport, enthusiastically shaking every...
Late summer is slack time, and theaters have to scrounge for new movies. That may be part of it. But a quick survey of three recent films from abroad also suggests that the revolutions in the European cinema of the early '60s have subsided, the changes they brought have...