Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For his part, Ford firmly supports the B-1 bomber program, opposes bringing home any troops, and warns that Carter's budget reductions could be disastrous. Said Ford last week to cheers at a convention of the National Guard Association: "Cutting muscle out of America's defense is not the...
Carter's background has contributed to the undeniable fact that his support in many areas is squishy. Even at the time of the Democratic Convention, Carter's moment of triumph, Pollster Louis Harris said that the Democrats he surveyed "talked about him as though he were an outsider. They didn...
(5 of 11) allowed one spectacular goof?someone turned down an invitation for Carter to address the Steelworkers' national convention last week. After some scrambling, Mondale made the meeting.
There were dog-eared screen magazines, antique baseball cards, some Beatles T shirts-and one genuine prewar space hero at New York's Second Annual Nostalgia Convention. Buster Crabbe, better known as fearless Flash Gordon since he filmed the 40 or so movie-serial episodes in the 1930s, was...
WELLS COLLEGE (515 women; Aurora, N.Y.). At the 1972 Democratic Convention, Frances Tarlton ("Sissy") Farenthold, fresh from a defeat in the Texas gubernatorial primary, was nominated for the vice-presidential slot on the McGovern ticket in a symbolic gesture by the Women's Caucus. Her being chosen as the...