Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JOHN RHODES, 59, House Minority Leader, who, as permanent chairman of the convention, will have the power to recognize delegates and make rulings that could prove decisive. Rhodes will thus be the most powerful figure on the podium-until the nominee mounts it to deliver his acceptance speech. A genuine...
MARY LOUISE SMITH, 61, the first woman chairman of the Republican National Committee, will be one of the few women with a key role. Named party chairman by Ford shortly after he became President in 1974, she was widely regarded as a caretaker who would swiftly be replaced. An ill...
That huge harvest of Ford delegates made the Schweiker gamble Reagan's last hope: unless uncommitted delegates or unenthusiastic Ford delegates in those big states could be won over to Reagan, the challenger could not possibly amass the needed 1,130 votes. Most Republicans agree that if Sears does...
The next step, to be taken after next week's Republican National Convention, is for lawmakers to meet in a conference committee where they will attempt to reconcile the many differences between the Senate's new bill and the one already passed by the House. Speculation in Washington...
Retired Air Force Captain Ray Brennan, 61, a tall, graying man who loved to collect seashells, had been having heart trouble for some years. But he was the bookkeeper of American Legion Post #42 in Towanda, Pa., and, as his sister Maize Travis said, "All he lived for was these...